| Yanagawa Domain 柳河藩 | |
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| Domain of Japan | |
| 1600–1871 | |
 Mon of the Tachibana clan
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| Capital | Yanagawa Castle |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1600 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | Fukuoka Prefecture |
Yanagawa Domain (柳河藩, Yanagawa-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, Yanagawa was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. The Shimo-Chikugo (southwest of Chikugo), centered on the Yanagawa (Yanagawa) area, was the territory of the Kamachi clan from the Kamakura period to the end of the Sengoku period, and then the Ryuzoji clan, who destroyed the Kamachi clan, ruled for a period of time.
History
In the Toyotomi period, Tachibana Muneshige had 132,000 koku as the lord of Yanagawa Castle, but he joined the Western Army at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, so it was Kaieki and excluded.
In the same year, Tanaka Yoshimasa, the lord of Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province, was given 325,000 koku in Chikugo Province for his achievement in capturing Ishida Mitsunari and entered Yanagawa Castle. Yoshimasa vigorously carried out the maintenance of the territory, such as renovating rivers such as the Chikugo River, encouraging the development of new fields, and building a 32-kilometer embankment called "Keicho Main Residence" on the coast of the Ariake Sea. In 1620, when the second Tadamasa died of illness, he was deprived of his fief due to the uninuality.
In the same year, the former Tanaka territory was divided, and Tachibana Muneshige , who was forgiven for the crime of complicity of the Western army and owning 30,000 koku of the Tanagura Domain in Mutsu Province, returned to Yanagawa Castle with 109,000 koku after receiving an increase of less than 80,000 koku. Also, Arima Yutaka entered Kurume Castle with 210,000 koku and established the Kurume Domain. In addition, in the following year (1621), Tanetsugu Tachibana, a nephew of Muneshige, entered Miike County with 10,000 koku and established the Miike Domain.
In Watanabe Murao “Former Yanagawa Hanshi" says that the second generation Tadashige changed the stipend of his vassals from the local chigyo system to the Kuramai chigyo system in 1658, but the specific transition of the chigyo system has not been elucidated [1]. As a result, the feudal retainers of the domain are "no foot" represented by "~Ishi ○○ people's fuchip" by the chigyori, whose income is expressed in the kokudaka by the local chigyo system, and the chigyo by the chigyo of kuramai chigyo as "~ishi ○○ people's fuchi" by the fuchi rice given the capacity of cut rice. Separated, there will be a difference in the burden of roles and ratings in the house.
The 4th Kan-in built the lord's villa "Shukkei-tei" in the west of the castle in 1697. After the death of Kanto, it became a kaisho, but in 1738, the back (equivalent to the O-oku of Edo Castle) in the Ninomaru of Yanagawa Castle was moved to the same place, and after that, it came to be called Ohanahata. This building still exists as a Japanese-style inn "Ohana" run by the former lord of the Tachibana family.
The territory of the former Miike Domain, which was transferred to the Shigedo Domain at the time of the 8th generation of Kanju, was under the control of Saigokusuji County, but in 1816, this was changed to the custody of the Yanagawa Domain. After that, in 1851, 5,000 koku of the custody land was restored to the territory of the Shitowatari Domain, and in 1868, the Shimoto Domain moved the domain office to Miike, and the Miike Domain was established again, and as a result, the custody of the Yanagawa Domain ended.
The last lord of the domain, the 12th Kankan, was appointed as a chief retainer of Iki Tachibana during the Ansei era (1854-1859) and carried out the Ansei reform. In 1869, he was awarded 5,000 koku of Shotenroku by the Meiji government for his military service in the Boshin War.
In 1871, after becoming Yanagawa Prefecture due to Haihan-chiki Prefecture, it was incorporated into Fukuoka Prefecture through Mizuma Prefecture.
In 1869, the Tachibana family became a kazoku and became a count in 1884. [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 daimyos
The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka 
Tanaka clan, 1600 - 1620(Tozama daimyo)1 Tanaka Yoshimasa (義政田中) 1600 - 1609 Chikugo no kami(筑後守) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 325,000 koku 2 Tanaka Tadamasa (田中忠正) 1609 - 1620 Chikugo no kami(筑後守) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 325,000 koku Tachibana clan, 1620 - 1871 (Tozama daimyo)1 Muneshige (田中忠正) 1620 - 1638 Hida no kami(筑後守) Junior 3th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 2 Tachibana Tadashige (立花忠重) 1638 - 1664 Hida no kami(筑後守) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 3 Tachibana Akitora (橘秋虎) 1664 - 1696 Hida no kami(筑後守) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 4 Tachibana Akitaka (橘明隆) 1696 - 1721 Hida no kami(筑後守) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 5 Tachibana Sadayori (橘佐平) 1721 - 1744 Hida no kami(筑後守) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 6 Tachibana Sadanori (橘貞則) 1744 - 1746 Tango no kami(タンゴ、いいえ、私たち) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 7 Tachibana Akinao (橘アキナオ) 1746 - 1797 Sakon no shogen(左近将玄) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 8 Tachibana Akihisa (橘明久) 1797 - 1820 Hoki no kami(伯耆神) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 9 Tachibana Akikata (橘アキカタ) 1820 - 1830 None(全然) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 10 Tachibana Akihiro (橘明弘) 1830 - 1833 None(全然) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 11 Tachibana Akinobu (橘顕信) 1833 - 1845 Sakon Shogen(左近将玄) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku 12 Tachibana Akitomo (橘アキトモ) 1845 - 1871 Shipon(シポン) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 109,000 koku
See also
References
- ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
- ↑ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
External links
- (in Japanese) Yanagawa on "Edo 300 HTML" (19 Oct. 2007)