Shishido Domain

Hitachi-Shishido Domain (常陸宍戸藩, Hitachi-Shishido-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Hitachi Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Shishido Jin'ya in what is now part of the city of Kasama, Ibaraki. It was ruled for much of its history by a junior branch of the Mito Tokugawa clan.

Shishido Domain
宍戸藩
under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
1602–1871
CapitalShishido jin'ya
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1602
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofpart of Ibaraki Prefecture

History

When the new Tokugawa shogunate moved the powerful Satake clan north into Dewa Province, part of the lands they were given were occupied by the Akita clan. Shishido Domain was created for Akita Sanesue in 1602 out of part of the former Satake lands in Hitachi Province. He was replaced by his son Akita Toshisue in 1630, who was subsequently transferred to Miharu Domain in Mutsu Province and the domain reverted to direct control by the shogunate.

Shishido Domain was revived in 1682 for Matsudaira Yorio, the 7th son of Tokugawa Yorifusa of Mito Domain by order of Tokugawa Mitsukuni. The domain played a leading role in the pro-sonno joi Tengu Party Revolt of the early Bakumatsu period under the rule of Matsudaira Yorinori in 1864. After the failure of the revolt, Yorinori and many of the samurai of the domain were put to death and the domain officially suppressed. However, after the Meiji restoration, Shishido Domain was restored under Matsudaira Yoritaka, who was recalled from retirement and who served until the abolition of the han system in 1871.

The site of Shishido Jin'ya is now an Inari Shrine; however, the large main gate of the jin’ya survives, and is projected as an Ibaraki Prefectural Important Cultural Property.

The domain had a total population of 6398 people in 978 households per a census in 1869.[1]

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

Unlike most domains in the han system, Shishido Domain consisted of a single continuous territory which was calculated to provide its assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2][3]

List of daimyō
#NameTenureCourtesy titleCourt Rankkokudaka
Akita clan (tozama) 1602-1645
1Akita Sanesue (秋田 実季)1602-1630Akitajō-no-suke (秋田城介)Lower 5th (従五位下)50,000 koku
2Akita Toshisue (秋田 俊季)1631-1645Izu-no-kami (伊豆守)Lower 5th (従五位下)50,000 koku
tenryō1645-1682
Mito-Matsudaira clan (Shinpan) 1682-1864
1Matsudaira Yori (松平 頼雄)1682-1697Oi-no-kami (大炊頭)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
2Matsudaira Yorimichi (細川 興栄)1697-1721Chikugo-no-kami (筑後守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
3Matsudaira Torimichi (松平 頼慶)1721-1742Oi-no-kami (大炊頭)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
4Matsudaira Yorita (松平 頼多)1742-1766Oi-no-kami (大炊頭)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
5Matsudaira Yorisuke (松平 頼救)1766-1802Oi-no-kami (大炊頭)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
6Matsudaira Yoriyuki (松平 頼敬)1802-1807Yugei-no-suke (靭負佐)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
7Matsudaira Yorikata (松平 頼筠)1807-1839Oi-no-kami (大炊頭)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
8Matsudaira Yoritaka (松平 頼位)1839-1846Chikara-no-kami (主税頭)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
9Matsudaira Yoritnori (松平 頼徳)1846-1864Oi-no-kami (大炊頭)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
tenryō1864-1868
Mito-Matsudaira clan (shinpan) 1868-1871
10Matsudaira Yoritaka (松平 頼位)1868-1871Chikara-no-kami (主税頭)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku

References
  • Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.

Notes
  1. Edo daimyo.net (in Japanese) Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  3. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
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