Sakura Domain

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Remnants of moat of Sakura Castle

Sakura Domain (佐倉藩 Sakura-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Shimōsa Province (modern-day Chiba Prefecture), Japan.

In the han system, Sakura was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[1] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[2] This was different than the feudalism of the West.

History

The domain was centered on Sakura Castle in what is now part of the city of Sakura. It was ruled for most of its history by the Hotta clan.

Sakura Domain was originally created for Takeda Tadateru, a son of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1593, near the site of an ancient castle of the Chiba clan, which had fallen into ruins in the early Sengoku period. The domain subsequently passed through a bewildering number of hands during the 1600s, before coming under the control of the Hotta clan in the mid-18th century. During the Bakumatsu period, Hotta Masayoshi was one of the major proponents of rangaku and an ending to the country’s national isolation policy. He was one of the signers of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States. His son, Hotta Masatomo was a key supporter of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early stages of the Boshin War. After the Meiji Restoration, he was pardoned, and eventually made a count (hakushaku) in the kazoku peerage.

List of daimyō

#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Takeda Nobuyoshi (武田信吉)1593–1602 -none- -none- 40,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Matsudaira Tadateru (松平忠輝)1602–1603 Sakone-no-shosho Lower 4th (従四位下) 50,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Ogasawara Yoshitsugu (小笠原吉次)1603–1608 Izumi-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 22,000 koku
  • Doi clan (fudai) 1608-1633
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Doi Toshikatsu (土井利勝)1608–1633 大炊頭 Jiju Lower 4th (従四位下) 32,000 – 142,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Ishikawa Tadafusa (石川忠総)1633–1634 Tonomo-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 70,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Matsudaira Ienobu ( 松平家信)1634-1638Kii-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 40,000 koku
2Matsudaira Ienobu ( 松平康信)1638–1640Wakasa-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 40,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Hotta Masamori ( 堀田正盛)1642-1651Dewa-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 110,000 koku
2Hotta Masanobu ( 堀田正信)1651–1660Kozuke-no-suke Lower 5th (従五位下) 110,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Matsudaira Norihisa (松平乗久)1661–1678 Izumi-no-kami Lower 4th (従五位下) 60,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Ōkubo Tadatomo (松平乗久)1678–1686 Kaga-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 83,000 – 93,000 koku
  • Toda clan (fudai) 1699-1701
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Toda Tadamasa (戸田 忠昌)1686–1699 Yamashiro-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 61,000 – 71,000 koku
1Toda Tadazane (戸田忠真)1699–1701 Yamashiro-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 71,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Inaba Masamichi (稲葉正往)1701–1707 Tango-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 102,000 koku
2Inaba Masatomo (稲葉正知)1707–1723 Tango-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 102,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Matsudaira Norisato (松平乗邑)1723–1745 Izumi-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 60,000 koku
2Matsudaira Norisuke (松平乗祐)1745–1746 Izumi-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 60,000 koku
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
1Hotta Masasuke ( 堀田正亮)1746–1761Sagami-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 12,000 koku
2Hotta Masanari ( 堀田正順)1761–1805 Sagami-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 12,000 koku
3Hotta Masatoki ( 堀田正時)1805–1811Sagami-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 12,000 koku
4Hotta Masachika ( 堀田正愛)1811–1824Sagami-no-kamiLower 5th (従五位下) 12,000 koku
5Hotta Masayoshi ( 堀田正睦)1825–1859Sagami-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 10,000 koku
6Hotta Masatomo ( 堀田正倫)1859–1871Buzen-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku

References

  1. ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  2. ↑ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.

Further reading

  • Bolitho, Harold (1974). Treasures among men; the fudai daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Kodama Kōta 児玉幸多, Kitajima Masamoto 北島正元 (1966). Kantō no shohan 関東の諸藩. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha.

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