Tsuyama Domain

In 1600, after the Battle of Sekigahara, Mimasaka Province was ruled by Kobayakawa Hideaki, the daimyō of Okayama Domain. However, his domain was abolished due to attainder on his death without heir in 1602. In 1603, the Tokugawa shogunate appointed Mori Tadamasa, the son of Mori Yoshinari of Kawanakajima Domain in Shinano Province and the younger brother of Oda Nobunaga's page Mori Ranmaru, to the newly created Tsuyama Domain with a kokudaka of 186,000 koku. He changed the name of the area, which was originally called {{nihongo|Tsuruyama|鶴山||}} to "Tsuyama", began construction of Tsuyama Castle in 1604 and completed the layout of his castle town by 1616. In 1697, his 5th generation successor Mori Sugutoshi went insane in Ise Province on his way to Edo to fulfill his sankin kōtai duties. The "madness" may have been an excuse, as Sugutoshi had been in charge of constructing dog kennels outside Edo as part of Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's highly unpopular and ridiculed law against cruelty to animal and Sugutoshi reportedly fell into a rage on hearing that a ronin had broken into the kennel, slaughtering many dogs, which had resulted in the shogunate ordering the execution of a number of his retainers for negligence.

The domain was reduced to 100,000 koku, and transferred to a branch of the Echizen-Matsudaira clan whose ancestor was Yūki Hideyasu. In 1721, the second daimyō, Matsudaira Asagoro died at the age of 11 without heir. The shogunate agreed to allow a younger son of the daimyō of Shirakawa Nitta Domain to be posthumously adopted to secure the succession, but the kokudaka of the domain was halved to 50,000 koku. The prestige and also the ability of the domain to support its retainers was thus severely restricted, and the domain thereafter suffered from political and economic instability and frequent peasant uprisings. In 1765, the 5th daimyō, Matsudaira Yasuchika, opened a han school, the Kakuzankan (鶴山館), which lasted into the early Meiji period. The domain managed to restore its status to 100,000 koku when the 7th daimyō, Matsudaira Naritaka, adopted the 14th son of Shogun Tokugawa Ienari as his heir.Matsudaira Naritami was very active in the affairs of the Tokugawa family after 1868. Naritami was also known as Matsudaira Kakudō.Tamura, Tsuyoshi (1936). Art of the Landscape Garden in Japan, p. 178.

In the Bakumatsu period, the domain produced a number of doctors and rangaku scholars, including diplomat and legal scholar Tsuda Mamichi and future Prime Minister Hiranuma Kiichiro. In 1871, the domain became Tsuyama Prefecture due to the abolition of the han system. It was later incorporated into Okayama Prefecture via Hōjō Prefecture.

As with most domains in the han system, Tsuyama Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields, g.Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Hv99D510nHcC&pg=PA150&dq= The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150].Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). [https://books.google.com/books?id=T2_5_W7UFXwC&pg=PA18&dq= Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18].

• Mimasaka Province
• 22 villages in Higashinanjō District
• 3 villages in Aida District
• 7 villages in Yoshino District
• 45 villages in Shōnan District
• 10 villages in Katsuhoku District
• 26 villages in Nishisaijō District
• 25 villages in Nishihōjō District
• 25 villages in Tohokujō District
• 10 villages in Kumehōjō District
• 32 villages in Oba District

• Sanuki Province
• 6 villages in Shōzu District
• 3 villages in Aida District

In addition to the above, Tsuyama was in charge of administration of tenryō territories in Mimasaka: 7 villages in Tohokujō District, 27 villages in Oba District, and 32 villages in Saijō District.

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• 20px Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1st Tokugawa shōgun (1543–1616; r. 1603–1605)
• Yūki (Matsudaira) Hideyasu, 1st daimyō of Fukui (1574–1607)
• Naomoto, Lord of Himeji (1604–1648)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Naonori, daimyō of Shirakawa (1642–1695)
• 15px I. Nobutomi, 1st daimyō of Tsuyama (cr. 1698) (1680–1721; daimyō of Tsuyama: 1698–1721)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px II. Asagorō, 2nd daimyō of Tsuyama (1716–1726; r. 1721–1726)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Chikakiyo, daimyō of Shirakawa (1682–1721)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px III. Nagahiro, 3rd daimyō of Tsuyama (1720–1735; r. 1726–1735)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Naomasa, 1st daimyō of Matsue (1601–1666)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Chikayoshi, 1st daimyō of Hirose (1632–1717)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Chikatoki, 2nd daimyō of Hirose (1659–1702)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Chikatomo, 3rd daimyō of Hirose (1681–1728)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px IV. Nagataka, 4th daimyō of Tsuyama (1725–1762; r. 1735–1762)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px V. Yasuchika, 5th daimyō of Tsuyama (1752–1794; r. 1762–1794)
• 15px VI. Yasuharu, 6th daimyō of Tsuyama (1786–1805; r. 1794–1805)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px VII. Naritaka, 7th daimyō of Tsuyama (1788–1838; r. 1805–1831)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px IX. Yoshitomi, 9th daimyō of Tsuyama (1827–1871; Lord: 1855–1869; Governor: 1869–1871)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Tokugawa Yorinobu, 1st daimyō of Kishū (1602–1671)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Tokugawa Mitsusada, 2nd daimyō of Kishū (1627–1705)
• {{Tree list/final branch}}20px Tokugawa Yoshimune, 8th Tokugawa shōgun (1684–1751; 5th Lord of Kishū: 1705–1716; 8th Tokugawa shōgun: 1716–1745)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Tokugawa Munetada, 1st Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head (1721–1765)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Tokugawa Harusada, 2nd Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head (1751–1827)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 20px Tokugawa Ienari, 11th Tokugawa shōgun (1773–1841; r. 1786–1837)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px VIII. Matsudaira Naritami, 8th daimyō of Tsuyama (1814–1891; r. 1831–1855)

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