Murakami Domain

Murakami Domain (村上藩 Murakami-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Echigo Province in modern-day Niigata Prefecture.^[1]

In the han system, Murakami 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.

List of daimyo

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

• Murakami clan, 1598-1618 (tozama; 95,000 koku)^[4]

1. Yorikatsu^[5]
2. Tadakatsu

• Hori clan, 1618-1644 (tozama; 100,000 koku)^[1]

1. Naoyori^[5]
2. Naotsugu
3. Naosada

• Honda clan, 1644-1649 (fudai; 100,000 koku)^[1]
• Matsudaira (Echizen) clan, 1649-1667 (fudai; 100,000 -> 150,000 koku)^[6]

1. Naonori^[5]

• Sakakibara clan, 1667-1704 (fudai; 150,000 koku)^[7]

1. Naoyori
2. Masatomo
3. Masakuni

• Honda clan, 1704-1709 (fudai; 150,000 koku)^[8]

1. Tadayoshi
2. Tadataka
3. Tadayoshi

• Ōkōchi clan, 1710-1717 (fudai; 72,000 koku)^[9]

1. Terusada

• Manabe clan, 1717-1720 (fudai; 50,000 koku)^[10]

1. Akifusa
2. Akitoki

• Naitō clan, 1720-1868 (fudai; 50,000 koku)^[11]

1. Kazunobu
2. Nobuteru
3. Nobuoki
4. Nobuakira
5. Nobuyori
6. Nobuatsu
7. Nobumoto
8. Nobutami
9. Nobutomi

See also

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system

References

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

1. "Echigo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-7.
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. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Murakami" at Noblaire du Japon, p. 38; Murakami Castle 村上城 at JCastle.info; retrieved 2013-4-7.
5. Murakami Castle 村上城 at JCastle.info; retrieved 2013-4-7.
6. Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira (Echizen)" pp. 29-30; retrieved 2013-4-7.
7. Papinot, (2003). "Sakakibara" at p. 51; retrieved 2013-4-7.
8. Papinot, (2003). "Honda" at pp. 10-11; retrieved 2013-4-7.
9. Papinot, (2003). "Ōkochi" at 46; retrieved 2013-4-7.
10. Papinot, (2003). "Manabe" at p. 29; retrieved 2013-4-7.
11. Papinot, (2003). "Naitō" at pp. 39-40; retrieved 2013-4-7.

External links

• "Murakami" at Edo 300 (Japanese)