Hitachi-Fuchū Domain
The Hitachi-Fuchū Domain (常陸府中藩 Hitachi-Fuchū han) was a Japanese han (domain) of the Edo period.
In the han system, Hitachi-Fuchū 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 from the feudalism of the West.
History
The domain was created in 1602, when the Rokugō clan, a prominent family of Dewa Province, was moved to new landholdings given to them for distinguished service in the eastern army during the Sekigahara Campaign. The domain then passed into the hands of the Minagawa family before going to what became the Matsudaira family of Fuchū, a branch of the Tokugawa clan of Mito. Renamed Ishioka-han (石岡藩) in 1869, it was abolished in the Haihan Chiken order of 1871.
List of Edo-era Daimyō of Fuchū
- Rokugō clan (10,000 koku)
- Masanori
- Minagawa clan (10,000 koku->15,000->13,930->18,000->13,000)
- Hiroteru
- Takatsune
- Narisato
(Followed by brief period as tenryō)
- Matsudaira clan (Mito) (20,000 koku)
- Yoritaka
- Yoriyuki
- Yoriaki
- Yorinaga
- Yoritomi
- Yorizumi
- Yorisaki
- Yoritsugu
- Yorifumi
Family Heads since the Edo Period
- Yorinari
- Yoritsune
- Yoriaki
References
- ↑ 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.