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The was a Japanese domain of the
Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...
. It is associated with
Hizen Province was an old province of Japan in the area of the Saga and Nagasaki prefectures. It was sometimes called , with Higo Province. Hizen bordered on the provinces of Chikuzen and Chikugo. The province was included in Saikaidō. It did not incl ...
in modern-day
Saga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of 809,248 (1 August 2020) and has a geographic area of 2,440 km2 (942 sq mi). Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasa ...
."Hizen Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
retrieved 2013-5-28. In the
han system ( ja, 藩, "domain") is a Japanese historical term for the Estate (land), estate of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji (era), Meiji period (1868–1912).Louis Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Han"in ''Japan En ...
, Shimabara was a
political Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...
and
economic An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...
abstraction based on periodic
cadastral A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref> Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of '' kokudaka'', not land area. This was different from the
feudalism Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structur ...
of the West.


History

The
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, who were ''Kirishitan daimyōs'', ruled over Shimabara Domain in the late Muromachi period from Hinoe Castle and Hara Castle. In 1614, the Tokugawa Bakufu banned Christianity and replaced Arima Naozumi with Matsukura Shigemasa. Matsukura, who strictly enforced the prohibition against Christianity with mass executions, also severely raised taxes to pay for the construction of his new
Shimabara Castle , also known as and , is a Japanese castle located in Shimabara, Hizen Province (present day Nagasaki prefecture). This five-story white building stands in stark contrast to the black Kumamoto Castle in neighboring Kumamoto Prefecture. Descripti ...
from 1618 to 1624. This oppression of the peasants was a major factor leading to the Shimabara Rebellion. After the rebellion was suppressed, the domain was given to the
Kōriki clan The was a ''fudai'' samurai clan which briefly came to prominence during the Sengoku and early Edo period Japan. Kōriki Kiyonaga (1530-1608) was a hereditary retainer of the Tokugawa clan, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu as ''bugyō'' of Sunpu a ...
. It then passed to the Fukōzu-Matsudaira family, who ruled it from 1669 until 1871 (with a brief hiatus from 1749 to 1774, during which the domain was ruled by the Toda clan, cousins of the Fukōzu-Matsudaira). In the Bakumatsu period,
Matsudaira Tadachika was a Japanese '' fudai daimyō'' of the Edo period. He was highly influential in the Tokugawa shogunate under Shōgun Ieshige.Screech, Timon. (2006). ''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822'', p. 241 n74. Tadach ...
became an influential official in the Tokugawa administration. However, the final ''daimyō'' of Shimabara, Matsudaira Tadakazu pledged Shimabara domain in support of Emperor Meiji in the Boshin War, proved his loyalty by committing his troops to the northern campaign against the
Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei The was a Japanese military-political coalition established and disestablished over the course of several months in early to mid-1868 during the Boshin War. Its flag was either a white interwoven five-pointed star on a black field, or a black i ...
, fighting at
Akita is a Japanese name and may refer to: Places * 8182 Akita, a main-belt asteroid * Akita Castle, a Nara period fortified settlement in Akita, Japan * Akita Domain, also known as Kubota Domain, feudal domain in Edo period Japan * Akita, Kumamoto ...
and Morioka.


List of ''daimyōs''

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'' *Matsukura clan, 1616–1638 (''tozama''; 40,000 ''koku'') : *
Kōriki clan The was a ''fudai'' samurai clan which briefly came to prominence during the Sengoku and early Edo period Japan. Kōriki Kiyonaga (1530-1608) was a hereditary retainer of the Tokugawa clan, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu as ''bugyō'' of Sunpu a ...
, 1638–1668 ('' fudai''; 40,000 ''koku'') : * Matsudaira (Fukōzu) clan, 1669–1749 (''fudai''; 70,000 ''koku'')Papinot, (2003)
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retrieved 2013-6-7. : * Toda clan, 1749–1774 (''fudai''; 77,000 ''koku'') : * Matsudaira (Fukōzu) clan, 1774–1871 (''fudai''; 70,000 ''koku'') :


Simplified genealogy (Matsudaira-Fukōzu)

*Matsudaira Nobumitsu, 3rd head of the Matsudaira (c. – ) **Chikatada, 4th head of the Matsudaira (c. 1431–1531) *** Nagachika, 5th head of the Matsudaira (1473–1544) **** Nobutada, 6th head of the Matsudaira (1490–1531) ***** Kiyoyasu, 7th head of the Matsudaira (1511–1536) ******Usui-hime, m. Sakai Tadatsugu (1527–1596) ******* Ogasawara Nobuyuki, 1st ''daimyō'' of Koga (1570–1614) ******** daughter, (m.?) Mizuno Tadasada ********* daughter, m. Tsuchiya Kazunao, 1st ''daimyō'' of Tsuchiura (1608–1679) ********** Tsuchiya Masanao, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Tsuchiura (1641–1722) *********** Tsuchiya Nobunao, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Tsuchiura (1696–1734) ************ daughter, m. IV. Matsudaira Tadatoki, 4th ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (1st creation) (1716–1749; r. 1738–1749). ************* V. Tadamasa, 5th ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (1st creation) ( – 1801; r. 1749) ************* I. Tadahiro, 1st ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (2nd creation, cr. 1774) ( – 1792; r. 1774–1792) ************** II. Tadayori, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (2nd creation) (1771–1819; r. 1792–1819) *************** III. Tadayoshi, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (2nd creation) (1799–1840; r. 1819–1840) **************** IV. Tadanari, 4th ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (2nd creation) (1824–1847; r. 1840–1847) **************** V. Tadakiyo, 5th ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (2nd creation) (1832–1859; r. 1847–1859) *************** Tadaatsu **************** VII. Tadachika, 7th ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (2nd creation) (1845–1862; r. 1860–1862) ****** Hirotada, 8th head of the Matsudaira (1526–1549) *******
Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fello ...
, 1st Tokugawa ''shōgun'' (1543–1616; r. 1603–1605) ********Matsudaira Nobuyasu (1559–1579) ********* Kuma-hime (1577–1626), m. Honda Tadamasa, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Kuwana (1575–1631) ********** Kuni-hime (1595–1649), m. Arima Naozumi, ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (1586–1641) *********** daughter, m. Akimoto Tomitomo, 1st ''daimyō'' of Yamura (1610–1657) ************ daughter, m. Toda Takamasa, 1st ''daimyō'' of Sakura (1632–1699) ************* Toda Tadaaki **************Toda Tadami, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Utsunomiya (1689–1746) ***************Toda Tadamitsu, ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (1730–1781) *************** Toda Tadatō, ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (1739–1801) ************** daughter, m. II. Matsudaira Tadakatsu, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (1st creation) (1673–1736; r. 1698–1735). He adopted a distant relation: *************** ''III. Matsudaira Tadami, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (1st creation)'' (1712–1738; r. 1735–1738). He adopted a cousin, Tadatoki, son of Matsudaira Kankei, a ''hatamoto'' (see above): ********Kame-hime (1560–1625), m. Okudaira Nobumasa, 1st ''daimyō'' of Kanō (1555–1615) ********* Matsudaira Tadaaki, 1st ''daimyō'' of Himeji (1583–1644) ********** Eshō-in, m. Nabeshima Tadanao (1613–1635) *********** Nabeshima Mitsushige, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Saga (1632–1700) ************ Nabeshima Muneshige, 5th ''daimyō'' of Saga (1687–1755) ************* Nabeshima Harushige, 8th ''daimyō'' of Saga (1745–1805) ************** daughter, m. Date Munetada, 7th ''daimyō'' of Uwajima (1792–1889) *************** VI. Matsudaira Tadaatsu, 6th ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (2nd creation) (1841–1860; r. 1859–1860) ******** Tokugawa Yorifusa, 1st ''daimyō'' of Mito (1603–1661) ********* Matsudaira Yorishige, 1st ''daimyō'' of Takamatsu (1622–1695) ********** Yoritoshi (1661–1687) *********** Yoritoyo, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Takamatsu (1680–1735) ************ Tokugawa Munetaka, 4th ''daimyō'' of Mito (1705–1730) ************* Tokugawa Munemoto, 5th ''daimyō'' of Mito (1728–1766) ************** Tokugawa Harumori, 6th ''daimyō'' of Mito (1751–1805) *************** Tokugawa Harutoshi, 7th ''daimyō'' of Mito (1773–1816) **************** Tokugawa Nariaki, 9th ''daimyō'' of Mito (1800–1860) ***************** VIII. Tadakazu, 8th ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (2nd creation), 8th family head, 1st Viscount (1851–1917; ''daimyō'': 1862–1869; Governor: 1869–1871; family head: 1862–1917; Viscount: cr. 1884) ****************** Tadaii (1870–1909) ******************* Tadaryō, 9th family head, 2nd Viscount (1903–1934; 9th family head and 2nd Viscount: 1917–1934) ******************** Tadasada, 10th family head, 3rd Viscount (born 1928; 10th family head: 1934–present; 3rd Viscount: 1934–1947) *********************Tadatsugu (b. 1965) ********************* Tadaoki (b. 1967) ** Tadakage (d. 1485) *** Tadasada **** Yoshikage (1517–1561) ***** Koretada (1537–1575) ****** Ietada, ''daimyō'' of Omigawa (1555–1600) ******* Tadatoshi, 1st ''daimyō'' of Yoshida (1582–1632) ******** I. Tadafusa, 1st ''daimyō'' of Shimabara (1st creation, cr. 1669) (1619–1700; ''daimyō'': 1669–1698) Genealogy (jp)
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See also

* List of Han * Abolition of the han system


References


External links


"Shimabara" at Edo 300
{{Authority control Domains of Japan