Kurume Domain
久留米藩
Domain of Japan
1620–1871
Mon of the Arima clan of Kurume Domain
CapitalKurume Castle
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1620
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofFukuoka Prefecture
Remains of Kurume Castle (November 4, 2010)
The site of Kurume Castle, as seen from the air
Arima Yorishige, final daimyo of Kurume Domain

Kurume Domain (久留米藩, Kurume-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Chikugo Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.

In the han system, Kurume was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.

History

In 1587, Kobayakawa Hidekane who was to hold 75,000 koku in the three counties of Chikugo by Kyushu Shioki, renovated Kurume Castle and made it his castle. Hidekane is called "Hashiba Kurume Chamberlain" and is increased to 130,000 koku due to the war service of the Bunroku-Keicho War. However, it was Kaieki because it joined the Western Army during the Battle of Sekigahara.

After the Battle of Sekigahara, 325,000 koku in Chikugo Province became the territory of Tanaka Yoshimasa (see Yanagawa Domain). Yoshimasa made Yanagawa Castle his residence, and his son Tanaka Norimasa (Yoshinobu) was placed in Kurume Castle. During the era of the Tanaka family, the expansion of Kurume Castle was carried out, but it was destroyed by the Ichijo Ikkoku Ordinance in 1615.

In 1620, when the second lord of the domain Tanaka Tadamasa, died of illness, the Tanaka family was deprived of his position due to unsugi. The territory was divided, and 210,000 koku in the central and northern part of Chikugo, including Kurume, became the territory of the Arima Toyo clan. In the southern part of Chikugo, the Yanagikawa Domain (109,000 koku) of Tachibana Muneshige and the Miike Domain (10,000 koku) of Tachibana Tanetsugu (Muneshige's nephew) were established. In 1620, the Arima Toyoshi clan, who was a daimyo of 80,000 koku of Fukuchiyama Domain in Tanba Province, received an increase of 130,000 koku in one fell swoop and entered the seal as a feudal lord of 210,000 koku of Kurume. The significant increase is considered to be a achievement of the Siege of Osaka (In addition, Arima Yorisoko, a descendant of the Arima family, said, "It is mysterious that it has increased by 130,000 koku even though he has not worked much").

The Yutaka clan is the second son of Arima Noriyori, a powerful family of the Akamatsu clan in Harima Province, and the lord of Yokosuka Castle in Totomi Province, who is his sister-in-law in the Toyotomi government. He served Watase Shigeaki and inherited his territory, and after Hideyoshi Toyotomi's death, he approached Ieyasu Tokugawa with his father and married Ieyasu's adopted daughter, Princess Ren. After the transfer to Fukuchiyama after the Battle of Sekigahara and the incorporation of his father's territory (Mito Domain), he jumped to a daimyo with 210,000 koku in one generation by the transfer of Kurume, but at the same time he had a group of vassals with various origins. They are "Yokosuka-shu" taken over from the Watase family, "Umebayashi-komiyoshu" inherited from his father's Domain, "Tanba-shu" that Toyouji was employed in Fukuchiyama, and newly employed vassals in Kurume. These factions became the basis for the later conflict within the domain [2]. [1] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[2] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

List of daimyōs

The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain. At Kurume, the Tokugawa shōguns granted 210,000 koku to the Arima clan from 1620 to 1868.

#NameTenureCourtesy titleCourt Rankkokudaka
Arima clan, 1620 - 1868(fudai daimyo)
1Arima Toyouji (有馬豊氏),1620–1642Genben Head (源弁頭)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
2Arima Tadayori (有馬忠頼),1642–1655Daisuke Nakatsukasa (大輔 中務)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
3Arima Yoritoshi (有馬頼利),1655–1668Genbantou (原盤等)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
4Arima Yorimoto (有馬頼元),1668–1705Daisuke Nakatsukasa(大輔 中務)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
5Arima Yorimune (有馬頼旨),1705–1706Chikugo no kami (筑後の髪)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
6Arima Norifusa (有馬則維),1706–1729Genban-tō (原盤等)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
7Arima Yoriyuki (有馬頼徸),1729–1783Daisuke Nakatsukasa (大輔 中務)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
8Arima Yoritaka (有馬頼貴),1784–1812Daisuke Nakatsukasa (大輔 中務)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
9Arima Yorinori (有馬頼徳),1812–1844Kazu Sasuke, genban-tō (和サスケ、 原盤等)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
10Arima Yoritō (有馬頼永),1844–1846Chikugo no kami (筑後の髪)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku
11Arima Yorishige (有馬頼咸),1846–1871Daisuke Nakatsukasa (大輔 宮内)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)210,000 koku

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The Arima clan leaders became viscounts in the Meiji period.

Genealogy (simplified)

  • Arima Noriyori, Lord of Sanda (1533–1602)
    • I. Toyouji, 1st daimyō of Kurume (cr. 1620) (1569–1642; r. 1620–1642)
      • II. Tadayori, 2nd daimyō of Kurume (1603–1655; r. 1642–1655)
        • III. Yoritoshi, 3rd daimyō of Kurume (1652–1668; r. 1655–1668)
        • IV. Yorimoto, 4th daimyō of Kurume (1654–1705; r. 1668–1705)
          • V. Yorimune, 5th daimyō of Kurume (1685–1706; r. 1705–1706)
    • A daughter, who m. Ishino (Akamatsu) Ujimitsu (1553–1606)
      • Akamatsu
        • Ishino
          • Ishino
            • Ishino Norikazu
              • VI. Arima Norifusa, 6th daimyō of Kurume (1674–1738; r. 1707–1729)
                • VII. Yoriyuki, 7th daimyō of Kurume (1714–1783; r. 1729–1783)
                  • VIII. Yoritaka, 8th daimyō of Kurume (1746–1812; r. 1783–1812)
                    • Yorinao (1779-1805)
                      • IX. Yorinori, 9th daimyō of Kurume (1797–1844; r. 1812–1844)
                        • X. Yorito, 10th daimyō of Kurume (1822–1846; r. 1844–1846)
                          • XI. Yorishige, 11th daimyō, 1st Governor (1828–1893; daimyō: 1846–1869; Governor: 1869–1871)
                            • Yoritsumu, 1st Count (1864–1927; Count: 1884)
                              • Yoriyasu, 2nd Count (1884–1957; Count: 1927–1947)
                                • Yorichika (1918–1980)
                                  • Yorinaka (b. 1959)

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See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 – the Han system affected cartography
  1. ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  2. ↑ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  3. 1 2 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Arima" at Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 2–3; retrieved 2013-4-4.
  4. 1 2 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Arima Toyouji" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 45.
  5. ↑ Genealogy (jp)
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