Shimotsuma Domain

The Shimotsuma Domain (下妻藩, Shimotsuma-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Hitachi Province (modern-day Shimotsuma, Ibaraki). The domain was disestablished in 1871. Its last ruler, Inoue Masaoto, became a viscount in the Meiji era.

Its government under the Inoue was perpetually unstable due to several of the Inoue lords dying young and in quick succession.

List of lords

• Tagaya clan (Tozama; 60,000 koku)

1. Shigetsune (r. 1591-1601)

• Tokugawa clan (Shinpan; 100,000 koku)

1. Yorifusa (r. 1606-1609)

• Period as tenryō, 1609-1615.

• Matsudaira clan (Echizen) (Shinpan; 30,000 koku)

1. Tadamasa (r. 1615-1616)

• Matsudaira clan (Hisamatsu) (Shinpan; 30,000 koku)

1. Sadatsuna (r. 1616-1618)

• Period as tenryō, 1619-1712.

• Inoue clan (Fudai; 10,000 koku)

1. Masanaga (r. 1712-1720)
2. Masaatsu (r. 1720-1753)
3. Masatoki (r. 1753-1760)
4. Masamune (r. 1760-1784)
5. Masaki (r. 1784-1789)
6. Masahiro (r. 1789-1814?)
7. Masanori (r. 1814?-1816)
8. Masatomo (r. 1816-1819)
9. Masatami (r. 1819-1828)
10. Masakata (r. 1828-1845)
11. Masayoshi (r. 1845-1852)
12. Masanobu (r. 1852-1856)
13. Masakane (r. 1856-1866)
14. Masaoto (r. 1866-1871)

References

• http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/kantou/shimotuma.html
• Kikuchi, Akira (2000). Shinsengumi Hyakuichi no Nazo. Tōkyō: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha.