Tanaka Domain
Tanaka Domain (田中藩 Tanaka-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It is associated with Suruga Province in modern-day Shizuoka Prefecture on the island of Honshu.[1]
In the han system, Tanaka 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
Tanaka Domain was controlled by a large number of daimyō families in the course of its history, seldom for more than one generation.
Nakamura Kazutada, a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and castellan of Sumpu Castle built Tanaka Castle as a subsidiary fortification guarding the eastern approaches to Supu. After the defeat of the Toyotomi forces at the Battle of Sekigahara, he was relocated to Yonago by the victorious Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu kept Sumpu Castle for himself, and gave Tanaka Castle to his retainer Sakai Tadatoshi in 1601, with revenue of 10,000 koku. This marked the start of Tanaka Domain. Tadatoshi developed Fujieda-juku into a post station on the Tōkaidō, and as a castle town. He was so successful in his efforts that he was rewarded with a larger domain at Kawagoe in Musashi province in 1607, and Tanaka Domain reverted to direct Shogunal control.
Tanaka Domain was then given to Matsudaira (Sakurai) Tadashige, with its revenues increased to 25,000 koku in 1633. However, Tadashige was transferred to Kakegawa two years later, and his place was taken Mizuno Tadayoshi, with revenues of 45,000 koku. The Mizuno clan was subsequently replaced by the Matsudaira (Fujii), Hōjō, Nishio, Sakura, Tsuchiya, Ōta, Naitō, and Toki clans until Tanaka Domain finally came under the rule of the Honda clan in 1730. The Honda continued to rule Tanaka Domain over seven generations, until the Meiji Restoration of 1868. After the final Tokugawa Shōgun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, surrendered his title to Emperor Meiji, he relocated from Edo to Sumpu, with the provinces of Suruga, Izu and Mikawa as his personal domains. Tanaka Domain was included within the area of the new Shizuoka Domain. Thus, in September 1868, Tanaka Domain officially ceased to exist. The final daimyō of Tanaka Domain, Honda Masamori, received the new (and short-lived) domain of Nagao Domain in Awa province in exchange.
List of daimyo
The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain.
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Sakai clan, 1601-1609 (fudai; 10,000 koku)[4]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Sakai Tadatoshi ( 酒井 忠利)[4] 1601–1607 Bungo-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku
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tenryō 1607-1635
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Matsudaira (Sakurai) clan, 1633-1635 (fudai; 25,000 koku)[1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Matsudaira Tadashige ( 松平 忠重) 1633–1635 Daizen-no-suke Lower 5th (従五位下) 25,000 koku
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Mizuno clan, 1535-1642 (fudai; 45,000 koku)[1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Mizuno Tadayoshi ( 水野 忠善) 1635–1642 Daizen-no-suke Lower 5th (従五位下) 45,000 koku
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Matsudaira (Fujii) clan, 1642-1644 (fudai; 25,000 koku)[1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Matsudaira Tadaharu ( 松平 忠晴) 1642–1644 Iga-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 25,000 koku
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Nishio clan, 1648-1679 (fudai; 25,000 koku)[1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Nishio Tadateru ( 西尾 忠照) 1649–1654 Tango-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 25,000 koku ２ Nishio Tadanari ( 西尾 忠成) 1654–1679 Oki-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 25,000 koku
- Sakai clan, 1679-1681 (fudai; 40,000 koku)[1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Sakai Tadayoshi ( 酒井 忠能) 1679–1681 Hyuga-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 40,000 koku
- Tsuchiya clan, 1681-1684 (fudai; 40,000 koku)[1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Tsuchiya Masanao ( 土屋 政直) 1681–1684 Noto-no-kami; Sagami-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 45,000 koku
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Ōta Sukenao ( 太田 資直) 1684–1705 Settsu-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 50,000 koku 2 Ōta Sukeharu ( 太田 資晴) 1705 Bitchu-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 50,000 koku
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Naitō clan, 1705-1712 (fudai; 50,000 koku)[1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Naitō Kazunobu ( 内藤弌信) 1705–1720 Bizen-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 50,000 koku
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Toki Yoritaka (土岐頼殷) 1712–1713 Iyo-no-Kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 35,000 koku 2 Toki Yoritoshi ( 土岐頼稔) 1713–1742 Tango-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 35,000 koku
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Honda clan, 1730-1868 (fudai; 40,000 koku)[1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues 1 Honda Masanori (本多正矩) 1730–1735 Bizen-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 40,000 koku 2 Honda Masayoshi (本多正珍) 1735–1773 Hoki-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 40,000 koku 3 Honda Masatomo (本多正供) 1773–1777 Kii-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 40,000 koku 4 Honda Masaharu (本多正温) 1777–1800 Hoki-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 40,000 koku 5 Honda Masaoki (本多正意) 1800–1829 Totomi-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 40,000 koku 6 Honda Masahiro (本多正寛) 1829–1850 Totomi-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 40,000 koku 6 Honda Masamori (本多正納) 1850–1868 Kii-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下) 40,000 koku
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 "Suruga Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-10.
- ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
- ↑ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Sakai" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 51; retrieved 2013-8-8.
External links
- "Tanaka" at Edo 300 (Japanese)