Kōfu Domain

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Kōfu Domain (甲府藩 Kōfu-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Kai Province in modern-day Yamanashi Prefecture.[1]

In the han system, Kōfu was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[3] This was different than the feudalism of the West.

History

Reconstructed gate at Kōfu Castle

The center of the domain was at Kōfu Castle in what is now the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi.[citation needed]

Kai Province was initially entrusted to important Tokugawa clan members as Kōfu Domain, and later to the highly placed Yanagisawa clan, with periods of direct rule in between. Following the transfer of Yanagisawa Yoshisato to Yamato Province in 1724, the domain remained under direct shogunal control until the Meiji Restoration.[citation needed]

With the abolition of the han system in July 1871, Kōfu Domain became “Kōfu Prefecture”, which subsequently was renamed Yamanshi Prefecture.[citation needed]

List of daimyo

The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain.

#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues Notes
1Tokugawa Yoshinao ( 徳川義直)1603–1607Uhōe-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 250,000 koku9th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu
2Tokugawa Tadanaga ( 徳川忠長)1618–1624 Gon-Chūnagon 3rd (従三位) 238,000 koku3rd son of Tokugawa Hidetada
3Tokugawa Tsunashige ( 徳川綱重)1661–1678Sangi 3rd (従三位) 350,000 koku3rd son of Tokugawa Iemitsu
4Tokugawa Tsunatoyo ( 徳川綱豊)1678–1704 Gon-Chūnagon 3rd (従三位) 350,000 koku1st son of Tokugawa Tsunashige
became 6th Shogun, Tokugawa Ienobu
  • Yanagisawa clan, 1704-1724 (fudai; 150,000 koku)[4]
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues Notes
1Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu ( 柳沢吉保)[4]1704–1709 Mino-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 150,000 kokutransfer from Kawagoe Domain
2Yanagisawa Yoshisato ( 柳沢吉里)[4]1709–1724Kai-no-kami
Jijū		 3rd (従三位)150,000 koku1st son of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
transferred to Yamato-Kōriyama Domain

See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Kai Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-7-8.
  2. ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  3. ↑ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Yanagisawa" at Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 70-71; retrieved 2013-7-8.

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