Komoro Domain

Komoro Domain (小諸藩 Komoro han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Shinano Province in modern-day Nagano Prefecture.^[1]

In the han system, Komoro 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

Gate of Komoro Castle

The center of the domain was at Komoro Castle.

In 1590, Ina Tadatsugu was established in Musashi Province at Komoro Domain with 13,000 koku revenues. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the han was increased to 20,000 koku.^[4] However, the clan was dispossessed in 1613 because of Ina Tadamasa's part in a plot organized by Okubo Nagayasu.^[5]

List of daimyo

The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain.

• Sengoku clan, 1590-1622 (tozama; 50,000 koku)^[1]

1. Hidehisa

• Ina clan, 1590-1613 (tozama; 20,000 koku)^[5]

1. Ina Tadatsugu^[5]
2. Ina Tadamasa^[5]

• Period from 1622-1624 as part of the Kōfu Domain.
• Matsudaira (Hisamatsu) clan, 1624-1648 (fudai; 45,000 koku)^[1]

1. Norinaga

• Period from 1647-1648 as part of the Matsumoto Domain.
• Aoyama clan, 1648-1662 (fudai; 42,000 koku)^[1]

1. Munetoshi

• Sakai clan, 1662-1679 (fudai; 30,000 koku)^[1]

1. Tadayoshi

• Nishio clan, 1679-1682 (fudai; 25,000 koku)^[1]

1. Tadanari

• Matsudaira clan (Ishikawa/Ogyū), 1682-1702 (fudai; 20,000 koku)^[1]

1. Norimasa
2. Noritada

• Makino clan, 1702-1871 (fudai; 15,000 koku)^[1]

1. Yasushige
2. Yasuchika
3. Yasumitsu
4. Yasuyori
5. Yasutomo
6. Yasunaga
7. Yasuakira
8. Yasunori
9. Yasutoshi
10. Yasumasa

See also

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system

References

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

1. "Shinano Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-6-28.
2. Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
3. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
4. Takahashi, Tomoko T. (2011). Samurai and Cotton: A Story of Two Life Journeys in Japan and America, p. 7.
5. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Ina" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 15; retrieved 2013-4-11.

External links

• "Komoro" at Edo 300 (Japanese)