Hikone Domain

The Hikone Domain (彦根藩 Hikone Han) was a feudal domain of Japan during the Edo period.^[1] It was established in 1600 with Ii Naomasa as the first daimyo. All fifteen daimyo were from the Ii clan.

A large fudai domain, Hikone was initially rated at 180,000 koku. The rating reached a peak of 300,000 (with the status of a 350,000 koku domain), and in 1871, when the domain was abolished, it was 200,000 koku.

The domain initially had its headquarters at Sawayama, the castle that had been occupied by Ishida Mitsunari prior to the Battle of Sekigahara. Construction of the new castle at Hikone began in 1603.

List of Daimyo

A guidepost marking the site of the former residence for the Ii clan in Edo (present-day Chiyoda, Tokyo)

• Ii clan, 1600-1871 (Fudai; 180,000->150,000->200,000->250,000->300,000->200,000 koku)

1. Naomasa^[2]
2. Naokatsu
3. Naotaka
4. Naozumi (Served as Tairō)
5. Naooki (Served as Tairō)
6. Naomichi
7. Naotsune
8. Naoharu (later changed name to Naomori; served as Tairō)
9. Naonobu
10. Naosada
11. Naoyoshi
12. Naosada (2nd time)
13. Naohide (Served as Tairō)
14. Naonaka
15. Naoaki
16. Naosuke (Served as Tairō)^[2]
17. Naonori

See also

• List of Han

Notes

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography

1. Deal, William E. (2005). Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, pp. 81-82.
2. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005). "Ii Naomasa" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 374., p. 374, at Google Books

References

• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301

This article incorporates material from the article 彦根藩 (Hikone Han), retrieved from the Japanese Wikipedia on September 13, 2007.

Further reading

• Bolitho, Harold. (1974). Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-01655-0; OCLC 185685588