Nagaoka Domain

Map of Nagaoka Domain area from Dai Nihon Enkai Yochi Zenzu

A statue of Kobayashi Torasaburō, senior Nagaoka official during the late Edo period

Nagaoka Domain (長岡藩 Nagaoka-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, Nagaoka 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

The domain was ruled by the Makino clan for most of its history. It was also the center of some of the fiercest fighting of the Boshin War, during the summer of 1868. Nagaoka joined the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei during the war, and fought against the imperial army. Kawai Tsugunosuke and Yamamoto Tatewaki were two senior Nagaoka commanders during the war.

Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the son of a Nagaoka samurai.

List of daimyo

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

• Hori clan, 1616-1618 (tozama; 80,000 koku)^[1]

1. Naoyori

• Makino clan, 1618-1868 (fudai; 74,000 koku)^[4]

1. Tadanari
2. Tadanari
3. Tazdatoki
4. Tadakazu
5. Tadachika
6. Tadataka
7. Tadatoshi
8. Tadahiro
9. Tadakiyo
10. Tadamasa
11. Tadayuki
12. Tadakuni
13. Tadakatsu

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 2013-4-8.
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). "Makino" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 29; retrieved 2013-4-8.

External links

• "Nagaoka" at Edo 300 (Japanese)