Kōfu Domain
Kōfu Domain (甲府藩, Kōfu-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Kai Province in modern-day Yamanashi Prefecture.[1]
In the han system, Kōfu 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
The center of the domain was at Kōfu Castle in what is now the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi.[citation needed]
Kai Province was initially entrusted to important Tokugawa clan members as Kōfu Domain, and later to the highly placed Yanagisawa clan, with periods of direct rule in between. Following the transfer of Yanagisawa Yoshisato to Yamato Province in 1724, the domain remained under direct shogunal control until the Meiji Restoration.[citation needed]
With the abolition of the han system in July 1871, Kōfu Domain became “Kōfu Prefecture”, which subsequently was renamed Yamanashi Prefecture.[citation needed]
List of daimyo
The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain.
- Hiraiwa clan, 1600-1603 (63,000 koku)[1]
Tokugawa clan, 1603-1704 (shinpan) [1]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues Notes 1 Tokugawa Yoshinao (徳川義直) 1603–1607 Uhōe-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 250,000 koku 9th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu 2 Tokugawa Tadanaga (徳川忠長) 1618–1624 Gon-Chūnagon 3rd (従三位) 238,000 koku 3rd son of Tokugawa Hidetada 3 Tokugawa Tsunashige (徳川綱重) 1661–1678 Sangi 3rd (従三位) 350,000 koku 3rd son of Tokugawa Iemitsu 4 Tokugawa Tsunatoyo (徳川綱豊) 1678–1704 Gon-Chūnagon 3rd (従三位) 350,000 koku 1st son of Tokugawa Tsunashige
became 6th Shogun, Tokugawa Ienobu
Yanagisawa clan, 1704-1724 (fudai; 150,000 koku)[4]
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues Notes 1 Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (柳沢吉保)[4] 1704–1709 Mino-no-kami Lower 4th (従四位下) 150,000 koku transfer from Kawagoe Domain 2 Yanagisawa Yoshisato (柳沢吉里)[4] 1709–1724 Kai-no-kami
Jijū3rd (従三位) 150,000 koku 1st son of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
transferred to Yamato-Kōriyama Domain
- Tokugawa clan, 1724-1871 (shinpan) [1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Kai Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-7-8.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c 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.