Ayabe Domain
綾部藩
under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
1633–1871
CapitalAyabe jin'ya
Area
  Coordinates35°32′27.9″N 134°49′18.9″E / 35.541083°N 134.821917°E / 35.541083; 134.821917
  TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
 Established
1633
 Disestablished
1871
Today part ofpart of Kyoto Prefecture
Ayabe Domain is located in Kyoto Prefecture
Ayabe Domain
Location of Ayabe jin'ya
Ayabe Domain is located in Japan
Ayabe Domain
Ayabe Domain (Japan)
Kuki Takatomo

Ayabe Domain (綾部藩, Ayabe-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Tanba Province in what is now the central portion of modern-day Kyoto Prefecture. It was centered around Ayabe jin'ya, which were located in what is now the city of Ayabe, Kyoto.[1][2][3]

History

Kuki Moritaka, the son of the Sengoku period admiral, Kuki Yoshitaka had been awarded the 35,000 koku Toba Domain. On his death in 1632, a succession dispute arose. Yoshitaka had appointed his 5th son, Kuki Hisataka as his heir, but his third son, Kuki Takasue, argued that he had the stronger clam due to primogenitor and asked for the Tokugawa shogunate for arbitration. The shogunate ruled in favor of Hisataka, but also assigned a kokudaka of 20,000 koku to Moritaka to form a new domain. This was the start of Ayabe Domain. In 1661, Takasue assigned 500 koku of this estate to his younger brother Takashige. The Kuki clan continued to rule Ayabe until the Meiji restoration.

However, during the tenure of the second daimyō, a great flood and a storm caused 3729 deaths, and the domain's finances began to decline. Repeated floods and famines occurred, and despite attempts to reform the financial system, peasant revolts frequently occurred. A han school, the "Shintokukan", was established during the tenure of Kuki Takanao. The eighth daimyō, Kuki Takahiro, brought in outside advisors (including Satō Nobuhiro) to reform agricultural and military policies. A clan monopoly system on cotton from 1847 helped restore the domain's finances. The final daimyō, Kuki Takatomo had served Emperor Kōmei as a guard during the Kinmon incident and at the start of the Boshin War was one of the first supporters of the Meiji government. Following the Meiji restoration he was made viscount (shishaku) in the kazoku peerage. In 1871, with the abolition of the han system, Ayabe Domain became "Ayabe Prefecture" and subsequently became part of Kyoto Prefecture. The site of the Ayabe jin'ya is now the Kyoto Prefectural Ayabe Senior High School.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

Most domains in the han system, which consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[4][5]

  • Tanba Province
    • 5 villages in Funai District
    • 32 villages in Ikaruga District
    • 25 villages in Amata District

List of daimyō

#NameTenureCourtesy titleCourt Rankkokudaka
Kuki clan, 1633-1871 (Tozama)
1Kuki Takasue (九鬼隆季)1633 - 1674Shikibu-shōyū (式部少輔)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)20,000 -> 19,500 koku
2Kuki Takatsune (九鬼隆常)1674 - 1698Ōsumi-no-kami (大隅守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)19,500 koku
3Kuki Takanao (九鬼隆直)1698 - 1713Nagato-no-kami (長門守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)19,500 koku
4Kuki Takanobu (九鬼隆寛)1713 - 1766Bingo-no-kami (備後守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)19,500 koku
5Kuki Takasada (九鬼隆貞)1766 - 1780Shikibu-shōyū (式部少輔)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)19,500 koku
6Kuki Takayoshi (九鬼隆棋)1780 - 1787Ōsumi-no-kami (大隅守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)19,500 koku
7Kuki Takasato (九鬼隆郷)1787 - 1808Shikibu-shōyū (式部少輔)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)19,500 koku
8Kuki Takanori (九鬼隆度)1808 - 1822Izumo-no-kami (出雲守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)19,500 koku
9Kuki Takahiro (九鬼隆都)1808 - 1861Shikibu-shōyū (式部少輔)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)19,500 koku
10Kuki Takamoto (九鬼隆備)1861 - 1871Ōsumi-no-kami (大隅守)Junior 5th Rank, Upper Grade (従五位上)19,500 koku

See also

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

References

  1. Nakayama, Yoshiaki (2015). 江戸三百藩大全 全藩藩主変遷表付. Kosaido Publishing. ISBN 978-4331802946.(in Japanese)
  2. Nigi, Kenichi (2004). 藩と城下町の事典―国別. Tokyodo Printing. ISBN 978-4490106510.
  3. Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.
  4. Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  5. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
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