Moats of Sakura Castle, administrative center of Sakura Domain Sakura Domain (佐倉藩 Sakura-han was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Shimōsa Province (modern-day Chiba Prefecture ), Japan . It was centered on Sakura Castle in what is now the city of Sakura, Chiba . It was ruled for most of its history by the Hotta clan .
History
Sakura Domain was originally created for Takeda Tadateru , the fifth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1593, near the site of an ancient castle of the Chiba clan , which had fallen into ruins in the early Sengoku period . The domain subsequently passed through a bewildering number of hands during the 1600s, before coming under the control of the Hotta clan in the mid-18th century. During the Bakumatsu period , Hotta Masayoshi was one of the major proponents of rangaku and an ending to the country’s national isolation policy . He was one of the signers of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States. His son, Hotta Masatomo was a key supporter of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early stages of the Boshin War . After the Meiji Restoration , he was pardoned, and eventually made a count (hakushaku ) in the kazoku
Holdings at the end of the Edo period
As with most domains in the han system , Sakura Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[ 1] [ 2]
Shimōsa Province
31 villages in Chiba District
146 villages in Imba District
26 villages in Shimohabu District
3 villages in Katori District
3 villages in Sōsa District
2 villages in Kaijō District
8 villages in Sōma District Dewa Province (Uzen )
45 villages in Murayama District Hitachi Province
3 villages in Tsukuba District
3 villages in Makabe District Shimotsuke Province
16 villages in Tsuga District
10 villages in Shioya District Musashi Province
3 villages in Saitama District
1 village in Koma District
2 villages in Iruma District
14 villages in Yokomi District Sagami Province
5 villages in Kōza District
10 villages in Ōsumi District
2 villages in Aiko District
#
Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
kokudaka
Takeda clan shimpan
1
Takeda Nobuyoshi (武田信吉 1593–1602
-none-
-none-
40,000 koku
Matsudaira clan shimpan ) 1602-1603
1
Matsudaira Tadateru (松平忠輝 1602–1603
Sakone-no-shosho (左近衛少将)Lower 4th (従四位下)
50,000 koku
Ogasawara clan fudai
1
Ogasawara Yoshitsugu (小笠原吉次 1603–1608
Izumi-no-kami (和泉守)Lower 5th (従五位下)
22,000 koku
Doi clan fudai ) 1608-1633
1
Doi Toshikatsu (土井利勝 1608–1633
Ōi-no-kami (大炊頭); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
32,000 –> 142,000 koku
Ishikawa clan fudai ) 1633-1634
1
Ishikawa Tadafusa (石川忠総 1633–1634
Tonomo-no-kami (大炊頭)Lower 4th (従四位下)
70,000 koku
Matsudaira (Katahara) clan fudai ) 1634-1640
1
Matsudaira Ienobu (松平家信 1634-1638
Kii-no-kami (紀伊守)Lower 4th (従四位下)
40,000 koku
2
Matsudaira Ienobu (松平康信 1638–1640
Wakasa-no-kami (若狭守)Lower 4th (従四位下)
40,000 koku
Hotta clan fudai ) 1642-1640
1
Hotta Masamori (堀田正盛 1642-1651
Dewa-no-kami (出羽守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
110,000 koku
2
Hotta Masanobu (堀田正信 1651–1660
Kozuke-no-suke (上野介)Lower 5th (従五位下)
110,000 koku
Matsudaira clan fudai ) 1661-1678
1
Matsudaira Norihisa (松平乗久 1661–1678
Izumi-no-kami (和泉守)Lower 4th (従五位下)
60,000 koku
Ōkubo clan fudai ) 1678-1686
1
Ōkubo Tadatomo (松平乗久 1678–1686
Kaga-no-kami (加賀守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
83,000 –> 93,000 koku
Toda clan fudai ) 1699-1701
1
Toda Tadamasa (戸田 忠昌 1686–1699
Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
61,000 –> 71,000 koku
1
Toda Tadazane (戸田忠真 1699–1701
Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
71,000 koku
Inaba clan fudai ) 1701-1723
1
Inaba Masamichi (稲葉正往 1701–1707
Tango-no-kami (丹後守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
102,000 koku
2
Inaba Masatomo (稲葉正知 1707–1723
Tango-no-kami (丹後守)Lower 4th (従四位下)
102,000 koku
Matsudaira clan fudai ) 1723-1746
1
Matsudaira Norisato (松平乗邑 1723–1745
Izumi-no-kami (和泉守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
60,000 koku
2
Matsudaira Norisuke (松平乗祐 1745–1746
Izumi-no-kami (和泉守)Lower 5th (従五位下)
60,000 koku
Hotta clan fudai ) 1746-1871
1
Hotta Masasuke (堀田正亮 1746–1761
Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
100,000 ->110,000 koku
2
Hotta Masanari (堀田正順 1761–1805
Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)
110,000 koku
3
Hotta Masatoki (堀田正時 1805–1811
Sagami-no-kami (相模守)Lower 5th (従五位下)
110,000 koku
4
Hotta Masachika (堀田正愛 1811–1824
Sagami-no-kami (相模守)Lower 5th (従五位下)
110,000 koku
5
Hotta Masayoshi (堀田正睦 1825–1859
Sagami-no-kami (相模守)Lower 4th (従四位下)
110,000 koku
6
Hotta Masatomo (堀田正倫 1859–1871
Sagami-no-kami (相模守)Lower 5th (従五位下)
110,000 koku
References
Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan . Tuttle (reprint) 1972. Bolitho, Harold (1974). Treasures among men; the fudai daimyo in Tokugawa Japan . New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kodama Kōta 児玉幸多, Kitajima Masamoto 北島正元 (1966). Kantō no shohan 関東の諸藩. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha.
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