was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Kōzuke Province (modern-day Gunma Prefecture),

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. It was centered on Isesaki '' jin'ya'' in what is now part of the city of Isesaki, Gunma. Isesaki was ruled through most of its history by a junior branch of the Sakai clan.

History

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in 1590, he assigned estates with revenues of 3000 ''koku'' to Inagaki Nagashige in Kōzuke Province, and entrusted him with the defense of Ogo Castle. He was awarded additional estates in 1601, following Ieyasu’s defeat at the hands of Uesugi Kagekatsu at

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, which elevated him to the rank of '' daimyō''. His son was transferred in 1616, and Isesaki was thereafter ruled by three junior branches of the Sakai clan until the end of the Edo period. During the Bakumatsu period, forces of Iseskai Domain played a role in the suppression of the

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; however the next-to-last daimyo, Sakai Tadatsuyo was quick to join the imperial side in the

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. After the end of the conflict, with the

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in July 1871, Isesaki Domain became "Isesaki Prefecture", which later became part of Gunma Prefecture. The domain had a population of 1964 samurai in 520 households per a census in 1763.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

Unlike most domains in the han system, which consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned ''

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 ...

'', based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields,Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987)
''Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century,'' p. 18
Isesaki was a relatively compact territory. * Kōzuke Province **18 villages in Sai District **30 villages in Nawa District

List of ''daimyōs''

References

External links

Isesaki on "Edo 300 HTML"

Notes

{{Authority control Domains of Japan 1601 establishments in Japan States and territories established in 1601 1871 disestablishments in Japan States and territories disestablished in 1871 Kōzuke Province