was a Japanese

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of the

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. It was associated with

Chikuzen Province was an old province of Japan in the area that is today part of Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyūshū. It was sometimes called or , with Chikugo Province. Chikuzen bordered Buzen, Bungo, Chikugo, and Hizen Provinces. History The original provincial ...

in modern-day

Fukuoka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...

on the island of

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. The domain was also sometimes referred to as Chikuzen Domain, or as Kuroda Domain, after the ruling Kuroda family. In the

han system ( ja, 藩, "domain") is a Japanese historical term for the estate of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912). Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Han"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 283. or (daimyo domain) s ...

, Fukuoka was a

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and

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abstraction based on periodic

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surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of ''

kokudaka refers to a system for determining land value for taxation purposes under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo-period Japan, and expressing this value in terms of ''koku'' of rice. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Koku"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 54 ...

'', not land area. This was different from the

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of the West. With its rating of 473,000 koku, the domain was the fifth-largest in Japan, excluding the domains held by the Tokugawa-Matsudaira dynasty.

List of ''daimyōs''

The hereditary ''

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s'' were head of the clan and head of the domain. Kuroda Fuji (No background and Black color drawing)

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, 1600–1868 ('' tozama''; 502,000→412,000→433,000→473,000 ''

koku The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. 1 koku is equivalent to 10 or approximately , or about . It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1000 gō. One ''gō'' is the volume of the "rice cup", the plastic measuring cup that is supplied ...

'') # Nagamasa #Tadayuki #Mitsuyuki #Tsunamasa #Nobumasa #Tsugutaka #Haruyuki #Harutaka #Naritaka #Narikiyo # Nagahiro # Nagatomo #

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(briefly ruled domain as imperial governor in 1871)

Family tree

* I. Kuroda Nagamasa, 1st ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka (cr. 1600) (1568–1623; Lord of Fukuoka: 1600–1623) ** II. Tadayuki, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka (1602–1654; r. 1623–1654) *** III. Mitsuyuki, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka (1628–1707; r. 1654–1688) **** IV. Tsunamasa, 4th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka (1659-1711; r. 1688-1711) ***** V. Nobumasa, 5th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka (1685–1744; r. 1711–1719) ****Nagakiyo, ''daimyō'' of Nogata (1667–1720) ***** VI. Tsugutaka, 6th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka (1703–1775; r. 1719–1769) As Tsugutaka, the sixth ''daimyō'', was without heirs, he adopted an heir from a branch of the Tokugawa family to continue the line: *Tokugawa Munetada, 1st Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head (1721–1765) **Tokugawa Harusada, 2nd Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head (1751–1827) *** IX. Naritaka, 9th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka (1777–1795; r. 1782–1795) **** X. Narikiyo, 10th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka (1795–1851; r. 1795–1834). He had a daughter: *****Junhime (d. 1851), m. XI. (Shimazu) Nagahiro, 11th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka, 11th family head (1811–1887; r. 1834–1869; family head: 1834–1869). He had a daughter: ******Rikuhime, m. XII. (Tōdō) Nagatomo, 12th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka, 12th family head (1839–1902; Lord: 1869; Governor: 1869–1871; family head: 1869–1878) *******Nagashige, 13th family head, 1st Marquess (1867–1939; family head: 1878–1939; Marquess: 1884) ********Nagamichi, 14th family head, 2nd Marquess (1889–1978; family head: 1939–1978; 2nd Marquess: 1939–1947) *********Nagahisa, 15th family head (1916–2009; family head: 1978–2009) **********Nagataka, 16th family head (b. 1952; family head: 2009–present) ** ''VII.(Kuroda) Haruyuki, 7th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka'' (1753–1781; r. 1769–1781). Adopted by the sixth Lord of Fukuoka. He adopted an heir, the eighth 'daimyō'': ** ''VIII. (Kyōgoku) Harutaka, 8th ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka'' (1754–1782; r. 1782) Genealogy
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References

External links

Fukuoka Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"
{{Authority control Domains of Japan

List of ''daimyōs''

Family tree

See also

References

External links