Uto Domain

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{{nihongo|Uto Domain|宇土藩|Uto-han}} was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was regarded as a sub-domain of Kumamoto Domain. It was based at the Uto jin'ya in what is now the city of Uto, Kumamoto. It was ruled by a cadet branch of the tozama daimyō Hosokawa clan for all of its history.{{cite book |last1=Nakayama |first1=Yoshiaki |title=江戸三百藩大全 全藩藩主変遷表付 |date=2015 |publisher=Kosaido Publishing |isbn= 978-4331802946}}{{in lang|ja}}{{cite book |last1=Nigi |first1=Kenichi |title=藩と城下町の事典―国別 |date=2004 |publisher=Tokyodo Printing |isbn=978-4490106510}}{{cite book | last = Papinot | first = E| year = 1910| title = Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan | publisher = Tuttle (reprint) 1972 }}

History

The domain was headed by a cadet branch of the Hosokawa clan of Kumamoto.Rein, Johannes Justus. (1884). [https://books.google.com/books?id=BrzteY1ur2kC&dq=hosokawa+at+Udo&pg=PA524 Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government, p. 524]. In 1624, the second daimyō of Kumamoto Domain, Hosokawa Mitsunao set aside estates in Uto District and Shimomashiki District in Higo Province with a kokudaka of 30,000 koku for his cousin, Hosokawa Yukitaka, and authorized him to establish a cadet branch of the Hosokawa clan.[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E8%A1%8C%E5%AD%9D 細川行孝] at Nihon jinmei daijiten; [http://reichsarchiv.jp/%E5%AE%B6%E7%B3%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E6%B0%8F%EF%BC%88%E8%82%A5%E5%BE%8C%E5%AE%87%E5%9C%9F%E8%97%A9%E4%B8%BB%E5%AE%B6%EF%BC%89 細川行孝 at Reichsarchiv.jp]; retrieved 2013-5-30. This was done partly as "insurance" to ensure the survival of the parent domain in the event that succession of the main lineage fail. The headquarters for this new domain was near the ruins of Uto Castle, but as a subsidiary domain, Hosokawa Yukitaka was not authorized to rebuild the castle, but instead constructed a jin'ya as his stronghold and administrative center. The domain survived for 11 generations until it was merged back into Kumamoto Domain in 1870 and then abolished with the Meiji restoration. #[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E7%AB%8B%E7%A6%AE 細川立禮] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507070111/http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E7%AB%8B%E7%A6%AE |date=2013-05-07 }} at Nihon jinmei daijiten; retrieved 2013-5-30.

List of ''daimyō''<ref name="papinot12">[[Edmond Papinot|Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph]]. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003). [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf "Hosokawa" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 12]; retrieved 2013-5-28.</ref>

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NameTenureCourtesy titleCourt Rankkokudaka
colspan=6|25px Hosokawa clan, 1646 - 1870 (Tozama daimyo)
|1Hosokawa Yukitaka (細川幸隆)1646 - 1690Tango-no-kami (丹後守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|2Hosokawa Arikata (細川有孝)1690 - 1703Izumi-no-kami (和泉守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|3Hosokawa Okinori (細川興生)1703 - 1735Izu-no-kami / Yamashiro-no-kami (伊豆守、山城守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|4Hosokawa Okisato (細川興里)1735 - 1745Yamato-no-kami (大和守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|5Hosokawa Okinori]] (細川興文)1745 - 1772Nakatsukasa-no-shosuke (中務少輔)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|6Hosokawa Narishige (細川斉茲)1772 - 1787Izumi-no-kami / Etchu-no-kami (和泉守、越中守)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)30,000 koku
|7Hosokawa Tatsuyuki (細川立之)1787 - 1818Izumi no kami (和泉守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|8Hosokawa Narimori (細川斉護)1818 - 1826Etchu-no-kami / Sakon'e-no-chujo (越中守、左近衛権中将、侍従)|Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|9Hosokawa Yukika (細川行芬)1826 - 1851Buzen-no-kami / Saemon-no-jo (豊前守、 左衛門尉)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|10Hosokawa Tatsunori (細川立則)1851 - 1862Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
|11Hosokawa Yukizane (細川行真)1862 - 1870Yamato-no-kami / Buzen-no-kami (大和守、豊前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku

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