Mikazuki Domain
| Mikazuki Domain 三日月藩 | |
|---|---|
| under Tokugawa shogunate Japan | |
| 1697–1871 | |
| Capital | Mikazuki jin'ya |
| Area | |
| • Coordinates | 34°59′27.08″N 134°25′53.29″E / 34.9908556°N 134.4314694°E |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1697 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | part of Hyōgo Prefecture |
Mikazuki Domain (三日月藩, Mikazuki-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in Harima Province in what is now the southwestern portion of modern-day Hyōgo Prefecture. It was centered around the Mikazuki jin'ya which was located in what is now the Mikazuki neighborhood of the town of Sayō, Hyōgo. It was controlled by a cadet branch tozama daimyō Mori clan throughout its history. It was also called Noino Domain (乃井野藩, Niono-han).[1][2][3]
History[edit]
In April 1676, the 2nd daimyō of Tsuyama Domain, Mori Nagatsugu, gave 15,000 koku of this holdings to his fifth son, Mori Nagatoshi, to create a cadet house. However, this subsidiary domain, Tsuyama Shinden Domain, did not receive official recognition from the shogunate until 1684. In 1697, the Mori clan were disposed from Tsuyama; but Tsuyama Shinden Domain was allowed to remain at its existing 15,000 koku as an independent domain called Mikazuki Domain. It survived nine generations, or 174 years, until the Meiji restoration. The 5th daimyō Mori Hayaatsu opened the han school, "Kōgyōkan". During the Boshin War, the domain quickly sided with the imperial government. In 1871, with the abolition of the han system, the domain became "Mikazuki Prefecture", which was merged with "Shikama Prefecture", which in turn became part of Hyōgo Prefecture.
The clan was ennobled with the kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount) in 1884.
Holdings at the end of the Edo period[edit]
As with most domains in the han system, Mikazuki Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[4][5]
- Harima Province
- 7 villages in Issai District
- 40 villages in Sayo District
- 18 villages in Shisō District
List of daimyō[edit]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka 
Mori clan, 1697-1871 (Tozama)
1 Mori Nagatoshi (森長俊) 1697 - 1715 Tsushima-no-kami (対馬守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku 2 Mori Naganori (森長記) 1715 - 1739 Aki-no-kami (安芸守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku 3 Mori Toshinobu (森俊春) 1739 - 1774 Aki-no-kami (安芸守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku 4 Mori Toshitsugu (森俊韶) 1774 - 1793 Kawachi-no-kami (河内守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku 5 Mori Hayaatsu (森快温) 1793 - 1801 Shimotsuke-no-kami (下野守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku 6 Mori Nagayoshi (森長義) 1801 - 1809 Kawachi-no-kami (河内守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku 7 Mori Nagaatsu (森長篤) 1809 - 1816 Tsushima-no-kami (対馬守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku 8 Mori Nagakuni (森長国) 1816 - 1848 Sado-no-kami (佐渡守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku 9 Mori Toshishige (森俊滋) 1848 - 1871 Tsushima-no-kami (対馬守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 15,000 koku
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See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Bolitho, Harold. (1974). Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-01655-0; OCLC 185685588
References[edit]
- ^ Nakayama, Yoshiaki (2015). 江戸三百藩大全 全藩藩主変遷表付. Kosaido Publishing. ISBN 978-4331802946.(in Japanese)
- ^ Nigi, Kenichi (2004). 藩と城下町の事典―国別. Tokyodo Printing. ISBN 978-4490106510.
- ^ Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.
- ^ 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.