Komono Domain

Komono Domain
菰野藩
under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
1601–1871
CapitalKomono jin'ya
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1601
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofpart of Mie Prefecture

Komono Domain (菰野藩, Komono-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Ise Province in what is part of now modern-day town of Komono, Mie. It was centered around Komono jin'ya. Komono Domain was controlled by the tozama Hijikata clan throughout its history.[1] Hijikata Toshizō, the famed leader of the pro-Tokugawa Shinsengumi during the Bakumatsu period was from a distance cadet branch of the Hijikata clan, and has no connection with this domain.

History

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Hijikata Katsuuji was a Sengoku period samurai in the service of Oda Nobunaga and subsequently Toyotomi Hideyoshi and held fiefs with a kokudaka of 10,000 koku in Komono, Ise Province. However, in 1599 he was accused of complicity in a plot to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu, and was dispossessed and exiled to Hitachi-Ōta. He was pardoned before the Battle of Sekigahara, where he distinguished himself in combat, and was reinstated to his former domains, with a 2000 koku increase. His successor, Hijikata Katsutaka, built a jin'ya from which to rule the domain, laid out the foundations for the castle town and invited merchants to populate it. The Hijikata clan continued to rule the territory until the Meiji restoration. However, the domain's finances were always precarious, and with large expenses due to duties at Osaka and Kyoto imposed by the shogunate, coupled with poor harvests, the situation became critical by the time of Hijikata Yoshitane, the 9th daimyō, who implemented Sumptuary laws, irrigation work, and speculation on rice futures in order to achieve financial reconstruction. He also founded the domain academy "Reisawakan". Hijikata Katsuoki, the 10th daimyō developed a higher value "brand rice" and Hijikata Katsuyoshi, the 11th daimyō began the production of tea as a cash crop. During the Boshin War, although opinion in the domain was initially divided in support between the Shogunate and the Emperor, Hijikata Katsunaga, the 12th daimyō, opted to support the new Meiji government. Komono Domain, as with all other domains, was ended with the abolition of the han system in 1871.[1]

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

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As with most domains in the han system, Komono Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2][3]

List of daimyō

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# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
Hijikata clan, 1702-1871 (tozama)
1 Hijikata Katsuuji (土方雄氏) 1600–1635 Tango-no-kami (丹後守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
2 Hijikata Katsutaka (土方雄高) 1635–1651 Tango-no-kami (丹後守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
3 Hijikata Katsutoyo (土方雄豊) 1651–1705 Bitchu-no-kami (備中守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
4 Hijikata Toyoyoshi (土方豊義) 1705-1719 Tango-no-kami (丹後守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
5 Hijikata Katsufusa (土方雄房) 1719–1750 Tango-no-kami (丹後守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
6 Hijikata Katsumasa (土方雄端) 1750–1758 Bitchu-no-kami (備中守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
6 Hijikata Katsunaga (土方雄年) 1758–1780 Omi-no-kami (近江守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
7 Hijikata Katsusada (土方雄貞) 1780 - 1782 Tango-no-kami (丹後守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
8 Hijikata Yoshitane (土方義苗) 1782 - 1835 Yamato-no-kami (大和守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
9 Hijikata Katsuoki (土方雄興) 1835 - 1838 Tonomo-no-kami (主殿頭) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
10 Hijikata Katsuyoshi (土方雄嘉) 1838 - 1858 Bitchu-no-kami (備中守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
11 Hijikata Katsunaga (土方雄永) 1858 - 1870 Yamato-no-kami (大和守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 12,000 koku
12 Hijikata Katsuyuki (土方雄志) 1870 - 1871 - Junior 5th Rank (従五位) 12,000 koku

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Oishi, Gaku (2020). 江戸五百藩-ご当地藩のすべてがわかる. Chuokoron-Shinsha. ISBN 978-4128001354.(in Japanese)
  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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