Okayama Domain
Appearance
The Okayama Domain (岡山藩, Okayama han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Bizen Province in modern-day Okayama Prefecture.[1]
In the han system, Okayama 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 sided with the Kyoto government during the Boshin War.[citation needed]
List of daimyo
The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain.
- Kobayakawa clan, 1600-1602 (tozama; 510,000 koku)[1]
- Ikeda clan, 1603-1632 (tozama/jun-shinpan; 280,000->380,000->315,000 koku)[4]
- Ikeda clan, 1632-1871 (tozama; 315,000 koku)[1]
Genealogy (simplified; Ikeda clan - Okayama)
- Ikeda Tsuneoki (1536-1584)
- Terumasa, 1st Lord of Himeji (1565-1613)
- Toshitaka, 2nd Lord of Himeji (1584-1616)
- I. Mitsumasa, 1st Lord of Okayama (2nd creation. cr. 1632) (1609-1682; r. 1632-1672)
- II. Tsunamasa, 2nd Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1638-1714; r. 1672-1714)
- III. Tsugumasa, 3rd Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1702-1776; r. 1714-1752)
- IV. Munemasa, 4th Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1727-1764; r. 1752-1764)
- V. Harumasa, 5th Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1750-1819; r. 1764-1794)
- Sagara Nagahiro, 12th Lord of Hitoyoshi (1752-1813)
- Sagara Yorinori, 13th Lord of Hitoyoshi (1774-1856)
- Sagara Yoriyuki, 14th Lord of Hitoyoshi (1798-1850)
- X. Akimasa, 10th Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) 1st Marquess (1836-1903; r. 1868-1869, Governor of Okayama: 1869-1871, Marquess: 1884)
- Narimasa, 13th family head and 2nd Marquess (1865-1909; 11th family head and 2nd Marquess: 1903-1909)
- Tadamasa, 14th family head and 3rd Marquess (1895-1920; 12th family head and 3rd Marquess: 1909-1920).
- Nobumasa, 15th family head and 4th Marquess (1904-1988; 13th family head and 4th Marquess: 1920-1947, 13th family head: 1947-1988)
- Takamasa, 16th family head (1926-2012; 14th family head: 1988-2012). m. Princess Atsuko of the Imperial House of Japan (b. 1931). No issue; the family became extinct after his death.
- Narimasa, 13th family head and 2nd Marquess (1865-1909; 11th family head and 2nd Marquess: 1903-1909)
- X. Akimasa, 10th Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) 1st Marquess (1836-1903; r. 1868-1869, Governor of Okayama: 1869-1871, Marquess: 1884)
- Sagara Yoriyuki, 14th Lord of Hitoyoshi (1798-1850)
- Sagara Yorinori, 13th Lord of Hitoyoshi (1774-1856)
- IV. Munemasa, 4th Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1727-1764; r. 1752-1764)
- III. Tsugumasa, 3rd Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1702-1776; r. 1714-1752)
- II. Tsunamasa, 2nd Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1638-1714; r. 1672-1714)
- I. Mitsumasa, 1st Lord of Okayama (2nd creation. cr. 1632) (1609-1682; r. 1632-1672)
- I. Tadatsugu, 1st Lord of Okayama (1st creation. cr. 1603) (1599-1615; r. 1603-1615)
- II. Tadakatsu, 2nd Lord of Okayama (1st creation) (1602-1632; r. 1615-1632)
- Toshitaka, 2nd Lord of Himeji (1584-1616)
- Motosuke (1559-1584)
- Yoshiyuki (1577-1618)
- Yoshinari (1605-1676)
- Yoshitaka (1641-1696)
- Yoshimichi (1681-1743)
- Masamichi, 3rd Lord of Kamogata (1714-1792)
- Masanao, 5th Lord of Kamogata (1746-1818)
- Masami, 6th Lord of Kamogata (1772-1819)
- Masayoshi, 8th Lord of Kamogata (1811-1847)
- Utako (1830-1877) m. VIII. Yoshimasa, 8th Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1823-1893; r. 1842-1863. Son of the 5th Lord of Nakatsu.)
- Hisako (1848-1868) m. IX. Mochimasa, 9th Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1839-1899; r. 1863-1868. Son of Tokugawa Nariaki, Lord of Mito.)
- Utako (1830-1877) m. VIII. Yoshimasa, 8th Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1823-1893; r. 1842-1863. Son of the 5th Lord of Nakatsu.)
- Masayoshi, 8th Lord of Kamogata (1811-1847)
- Masami, 6th Lord of Kamogata (1772-1819)
- Masanao, 5th Lord of Kamogata (1746-1818)
- Masamichi, 3rd Lord of Kamogata (1714-1792)
- Yoshimichi (1681-1743)
- Yoshitaka (1641-1696)
- Yoshinari (1605-1676)
- Yoshiyuki (1577-1618)
- Terumasa, 1st Lord of Himeji (1565-1613)
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Bizen Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-25.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Ikeda" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 14 [PDF 18 of 80]; retrieved 2013-4-25.
- ^ Genealogy