Kariya Domain

Monument marking the location of Kariya Castle

Kariya Domain (刈屋藩, Kariya han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in was is now part of the modern-day cities of Kariya and Anjō in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It was centered on Kariya Castle, which was located in what is now the city of Kariya.

History

During the Sengoku period, the area of Kariya Domain was part of the territory of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s mother’s family, the Mizuno clan. Ieyasu’s maternal grandfather Mizuno Tadamasa built Kariya Castle. The Mizuno clan shifted allegiances adroitly between the Imagawa clan to Oda Nobunaga and to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who relocated the clan to Ise Province. However, Mizuno Katsunari, the grandson of Tadamasa was allowed to return to the clan’s ancestral territories by Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara. He was later awarded with more lucrative territories in western Japan, and replaced by Mizuno Tadakiyo from another branch of the clan based at Obata Domain in Kōzuke Province. In 1632, he was transferred to nearby Yoshida Domain, and was replaced by Matsudaira Tadafusa to 1647, followed by Matsudaira Sadamasa (from a different branch of the Matsudaira clan) to 1651. The domain was thereafter in the hands of the Inagaki clan, Abe clan, Honda clan, Miura clan and finally the Doi clan from 1734 until the Meiji restoration.

The next-to-last daimyō of Kariya Domain, Doi Toshiyoshi, despite holding several important posts within the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate, gave shelter to the rebels from the Tenchūgumi Uprising and was forced to resign. His adopted son Doi Toshinori presided over a domain in a state of civil war between pro-shogunate and pro-sonnō jōi forces during the Boshin War and was unable to fulfill his assigned duty to hold Sumpu Castle for the shogunate. After the abolition of the han system in July 1871, the domain became “Kariya Prefecture”, which later became part of Aichi Prefecture.

Kariya Domain was not a single contiguous territory, but consisted of 22 villages in Hekikai District in Mikawa and 11 villages in Date District, Mutsu Province.

List of daimyō

• Mizuno clan (fudai) 1600–1615

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Mizuno Katsunari (水野勝成)	1600–1615	Hyuga-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	30,000 koku

• Mizuno clan (fudai) 1616–1632

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Mizuno Tadakiyo (水野忠清)	1616–1632	Hayato-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	20,000 koku

• Matsudaira clan (fudai) 1632–1649

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Matsudaira Tadafusa (松平(深溝)忠房)	1632–1649	Tonomo-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	30,000 koku

• Matsudaira clan (fudai) 1649–1651

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Matsudaira Tadamasa (松平(久松)定政)	1649–1651	Hyuga-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	20,000 koku

• Inagaki clan (fudai) 1651-1702

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Inagaki Shigetsuna (稲垣重綱)	1651–1654	Settsu-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
2	Inagaki Shigeaki (稲垣重昭)	1654–1687	Shinano-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
3	Inagaki Shigetomi (稲垣重富)	1687–1702	Izumi-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku

• Abe clan (fudai) 1702-1710

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Abe Masaharu (阿部正春)	1702–1709	Iyo-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	16,000 koku
2	Abe Masatane (阿部正鎮)	1709–1710	Inaba-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	16,000 koku

• Honda clan (fudai) 1710–1712

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Honda Tadayoshi (本多忠良)	1710–1712	Nakatsukasa-taifu; jiju	Lower 4th (従四位下)	50,000 koku

• Miura clan (fudai) 1712-1747

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Miura Akihiro (三浦明敬)	1712–1724	Iki-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
2	Miura Akitaka (三浦明喬)	1724–1726	Iki-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
3	Miura Yoshisato (三浦義理)	1726–1747	Shima-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku

• Doi clan (fudai) 1747-1871

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	revenues
1	Doi Toshinobu (土井利信)	1747–1767	Iyo-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
2	Doi Toshinari (土井利徳)	1767–1787	Yamashiro-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
3	Doi Toshinori (土井利制)	1787–1794	Hyobu-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
4	Doi Toshikata (土井利謙)	1794–1813	Iyo-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
5	Doi Toshimochi (土井利以)	1813–1829	Awaji-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
6	Doi Toshiharu (土井利行)	1830–1838	Osumi-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
7	Doi Toshisuke (土井利祐)	1838–1846	Awaji-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
8	Doi Toshiyoshi (土井利善)	1847–1866	Osumi-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku
9	Doi Toshinori (土井利教)	1866-1871	Awaji-no-kami	Lower 5th (従五位下)	23,000 koku

References

• Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.
• Template:Ja icon Kariya Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"