Oka Domain
Oka Domain 岡藩 | |
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Domain of Japan | |
1594–1871 | |
Mon of the Nakagawa clan
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Capital | Oka Castle |
Area | |
• Coordinates | 32°58′9.18″N 131°24′29.05″E / 32.9692167°N 131.4080694°E |
Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1594 |
1871 | |
Contained within | |
• Province | Bungo Province |
Today part of | Oita Prefecture |
Oka Domain (岡藩, Oka-han) was a
History
Oka Domain was founded by Nakagawa Hidenari, the son of Nakagawa Kiyohide,who had servedOda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and who had been awarded a 40,000 koku estate centered at Miki Castle in Harima Province. In 1594 Toyotomi Hideyoshi reassigned him to a new estate in Bungo Province with an increase to 66,000 koku. Subsequent surveys reassessed the official kokudaka to 70,000 koku. During the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, he remained loyal to the Eastern Army from the start of the campaign, and after the war, Tokugawa Ieyasu reconfirmed him in his existing holdings.Throughout the Edo period, the Nakagawa clan continued to rule Oka for 13 generations, without any transfer or reduction of territory.
The third
During the
The noted late Edo Period painter Tanomura Chikuden, was from Oka Domain.
Holdings at the end of the Edo period
As with most domains in the
- Bungo Province
- 5 villages in Ōita District
- 292 villages in Ōno District
- 285 villages in Naoiri District
List of daimyō
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka Nakagawa clan, 1594 -1871 (Tozama) 1 Nakagawa Hideshige (中川秀成) 1594 - 1612 <unknown> <unknown> 70,000 koku 2 Nakagawa Hisamori (中川久盛) 1612 - 1651 Naizan-no-kami (内膳正) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 3 Nakagawa Hisakiyo (中川久清) 1651 - 1666 Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 4 Nakagawa Hisatsune (中川久恒) 1666 - 1695 Sado-no-kami (佐渡守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 5 Nakagawa Hisamichi (中川久通) 1695 - 1710 Inaba-no-kami (因幡守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 6 Nakagawa Hisatada (中川久忠) 1710 - 1742 Naizen-no-kami (内膳正) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 7 Nakagawa Hisayoshi (中川久慶) 1742 - 1743 Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 8 Nakagawa Hisasada (中川久貞) 1743 - 1790 Shuri-no-daibu (修理大夫) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 9 Nakagawa Hisamochi (中川久持) 1790 - 1798 Shuri-no-daibu (修理大夫) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 10 Nakagawa Hisataka (中川久貴) 1798 - 1815 Shuri-no-daibu (修理大夫) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 11 Nakagawa Hisanori (中川久教) 1815 - 1840 Shuri-no-daibu (修理大夫) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 12 Nakagawa Hisaaki (中川久昭) 1840 - 1869 Sado-no-kami (佐渡守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku 13 Nakagawa Hisanari (木下俊敦) 1869 - 1871 Naizen-no-kami (内膳正) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 70,000 koku
See also
- List of Han
- Abolition of the han system
References
- ISBN 978-4331802946.(in Japanese)
- ISBN 978-4490106510.
- ^ Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.
- ^ 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.