Kōfu Domain

Reconstructed gate at Kōfu Castle, the headquarters of Kōfu Domain

Kōfu Domain (甲府藩 Kōfu-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The domain was centered at Kōfu Castle what is now the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi.[1]

History

Kai Province was initially entrusted to important Tokugawa clan members as Kōfu Domain, and later to the highly-placed fudai daimyo Yanagisawa clan, with periods of direct shogunal rule ( tenryō ) in between. Following the transfer of Yanagisawa Yoshisato to Yamato Province in 1724, the domain remained under direct shogunal control until the Meiji Restoration.[2]

With the abolition of the han system in July 1871, Kōfu Domain became “Kōfu Prefecture”, which subsequently was renamed Yamanashi Prefecture.

List of daimyo

#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudakaNotes
Tokugawa clan, 1603-1704 (shinpan) [1]
1Tokugawa Yoshinao ( 徳川義直)1603–1607Uhōe-no-kami (右兵衛督) Lower 4th (従四位下) 250,000 koku9th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu
2Tokugawa Tadanaga ( 徳川忠長)1618–1624 Gon-Chūnagon (権中納言)Third (従三位) 238,000 koku3rd son of Tokugawa Hidetada
3Tokugawa Tsunashige ( 徳川綱重)1661–1678Sangi (参議) 3rd (従三位) 250,000->350,000 koku3rd son of Tokugawa Iemitsu
4Tokugawa Tsunatoyo ( 徳川綱豊)1678–1704 Gon-Chūnagon (権中納言) 3rd (従三位) 350,000 koku1st son of Tokugawa Tsunashige
became 6th Shogun, Tokugawa Ienobu
Yanagisawa clan, 1704-1724 (fudai)[3]
1Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu ( 柳沢吉保)[3]1704–1709 Mino-no-kami (美濃守); Sakonoe-shoshō (左権少将) Lower 4th (従四位下) 150,000 kokutransfer from Kawagoe Domain
2Yanagisawa Yoshisato ( 柳沢吉里)[3]1709–1724Kai-no-kami(甲斐守)
Jijū (侍従)
3rd (従三位)150,000 koku1st son of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
transferred to Yamato-Kōriyama Domain
Tokugawa clan, 1724-1871(tenryō) [1]

See also

References

External links

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Kai Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-7-8.
  2. Kofu-han at Edo-300
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 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.