Tsuyama Domain

The nihongo|Tsuyama Domain|津山藩|Tsuyama han was a feudal domain in Mimasaka Province of Japan (present-day Okayama Prefecture) during the Edo period.

History

In 1600, the territory that became the Tsuyama domain formed part of the territory ruled from Okayama by Kobayakawa Hideaki. However, as Hideaki died heirless in 1602, the domain was confiscated by the shogunate.

In 1603, Mori Tadamasa, the younger brother of Oda Nobunaga's page Mori Ranmaru, was transferred to Tsuyama from the Kawanakajima Domain, and given landholdings worth 186,500 koku. Up to this point, the domain was called Tsuruyama; it was with Tadamasa's entry that it became known as Tsuyama. Tadamasa was responsible for the construction of the castl town and the development of the domain's politics. In 1697, the Mori clan was transferred out of Tsuyama, and the following year, Matsudaira Nobutomi, a great-grandson of Yūki Hideyasu, was granted Tsuyama as his domain. The Matsudaira clan remained in Tsuyama until 1871.

One of the Tsuyama domain's last daimyo, Matsudaira Naritami, achieved national prominence, as he was a son of Tokugawa Ienari, and was very active in the affairs of the Tokugawa family after 1868. Naritami was also known as Matsudaira Kakudō. [Tamura, p. 178.]

In 1871, the Tsuyama domain became Tsuyama Prefecture, before becoming Hōjō Prefecture and then Okayama Prefecture; the territory remains in Okayama Prefecture to the present day.

List of heads

*Mori clan, 1603-1697 (Tozama 186,500 koku)

* [Rein, p. 505.] )

References

* [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B4%A5%E5%B1%B1%E8%97%A9 "Tsuyama-han" article on Japanese Wikipedia] (11 March 2008)
* Rein, Johannes (1884). "Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government". London: Hodder and Stoughton.
* Tamura, Tsuyoshi (1936). "Art of the Landscape Garden in Japan". Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai.