Tsuyama Domain

Tsuyama Domain (津山藩, Tsuyama han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Mimasaka Province in modern-day Okayama Prefecture.[1]

Tsuyama Domain 津山藩
Domain of Japan
1603–1871
Capital	Tsuyama Castle
• Type	Daimyō
Historical era	Edo period
• Established	1603
• Disestablished	1871
Today part of	Okayama Prefecture

Tsuyama Castle

In the han system, Tsuyama 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 from the feudalism of the West.

History

In 1600, the territory that became the Tsuyama domain formed part of the territory ruled from Okayama by Kobayakawa Hideaki. However, as Hideaki died heirless in 1602, the domain was confiscated by the shogunate.

In 1603, Mori Tadamasa, the younger brother of Oda Nobunaga's page Mori Ranmaru, was transferred to Tsuyama from the Kawanakajima Domain, and given landholdings worth 186,500 koku. Up to this point, the domain was called Tsuruyama; it was with Tadamasa's entry that it became known as Tsuyama. Tadamasa was responsible for the construction of the castle town and the development of the domain's politics. In 1697, the Mori clan was transferred out of Tsuyama, and the following year, Matsudaira Nobutomi, a great-grandson of Yūki Hideyasu, was granted Tsuyama as his domain. The Matsudaira clan remained in Tsuyama until 1871.

One of the Tsuyama domain's last daimyo, Matsudaira Naritami, achieved national prominence, as he was a son of Tokugawa Ienari, and was very active in the affairs of the Tokugawa family after 1868. Naritami was also known as Matsudaira Kakudō.[4]

In 1871, the Tsuyama domain became Tsuyama Prefecture, before becoming Hōjō Prefecture and then Okayama Prefecture; the territory remains in Okayama Prefecture to the present day.

List of daimyōs

The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.

• Mori clan, 1603–1697 (tozama 186,500 koku)[5]

	Name	Tenure
1	Mori Tadamasa (森忠政)	1603–1634
2	Mori Nagatsugu (森長継)	1634–1674
3	Mori Nagatake (森長武)	1674–1686
4	Mori Naganari (森長成)	1686–1697
5	Mori Atsutoshi (森衆利)	1697

• Matsudaira clan 1698–1868 (shinpan; 100,000→50,000→100,000 koku)[6]

	Name	Tenure
1	Matsudaira Nobutomi[7] (松平宣富)	1698-1721
2	Matsudaira Asagorō (松平浅五郎)	1721–1726
3	Matsudaira Nagahiro (松平長熙)	1726–1735
4	Matsudaira Nagataka (松平長孝)	1735–1762
5	Matsudaira Yasuchika (松平康哉)	1762–1794
6	Matsudaira Yasuharu (松平康乂)	1794–1805
7	Matsudaira Naritaka (松平斉孝)	1805–1831
8	Matsudaira Naritami (松平斉民)	1831–1855
9	Matsudaira Yoshitomi (松平慶倫)	1855–1871

Simplified genealogy (Matsudaira)

• Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1st Tokugawa shōgun (1543–1616; r. 1603–1605)
  • Yūki (Matsudaira) Hideyasu, 1st daimyō of Fukui (1574–1607)
    • Naomoto, Lord of Himeji (1604–1648)
      • Naonori, daimyō of Shirakawa (1642–1695)
        • I. Nobutomi, 1st daimyō of Tsuyama (cr. 1698) (1680–1721; daimyō of Tsuyama: 1698–1721)
          • II. Asagorō, 2nd daimyō of Tsuyama (1716–1726; r. 1721–1726)
        • Chikakiyo, daimyō of Shirakawa (1682–1721)
          • III. Nagahiro, 3rd daimyō of Tsuyama (1720–1735; r. 1726–1735)
    • Naomasa, 1st daimyō of Matsue (1601–1666)
      • Chikayoshi, 1st daimyō of Hirose (1632–1717)
        • Chikatoki, 2nd daimyō of Hirose (1659–1702)
          • Chikatomo, 3rd daimyō of Hirose (1681–1728)
            • IV. Nagataka, 4th daimyō of Tsuyama (1725–1762; r. 1735–1762)
              • V. Yasuchika, 5th daimyō of Tsuyama (1752–1794; r. 1762–1794)
                • VI. Yasuharu, 6th daimyō of Tsuyama (1786–1805; r. 1794–1805)
                • VII. Naritaka, 7th daimyō of Tsuyama (1788–1838; r. 1805–1831)
                  • IX. Yoshitomi, 9th daimyō of Tsuyama (1827–1871; Lord: 1855–1869; Governor: 1869–1871)
  • Tokugawa Yorinobu, 1st daimyō of Kishū (1602–1671)
    • Tokugawa Mitsusada, 2nd daimyō of Kishū (1627–1705)
      • Tokugawa Yoshimune, 8th Tokugawa shōgun (1684–1751; 5th Lord of Kishū: 1705–1716; 8th Tokugawa shōgun: 1716–1745)
        • Tokugawa Munetada, 1st Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head (1721–1765)
          • Tokugawa Harusada, 2nd Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head (1751–1827)
            • Tokugawa Ienari, 11th Tokugawa shōgun (1773–1841; r. 1786–1837)
              • VIII. Matsudaira Naritami, 8th daimyō of Tsuyama (1814–1891; r. 1831–1855)

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See also

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography

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