Kasama Domain

{{Infobox former subdivision |_noautocat = |native_name = 笠間藩 |conventional_long_name = Kasama Domain |common_name = Kasama Domain |subdivision = Han |nation = |status_text = under Tokugawa shogunate Japan |government_type = Daimyō  |capital = Kasama Castle |coordinates = |political_subdiv =  |today = part of Ibaraki Prefecture   |year_start = 1601 |year_end = 1871 |event_start = |date_start =  |event_end =  |date_end =  |event1 =  |date_event1 = |event2 = |date_event2 = |event3 = |date_event3 = |event4 = |date_event4 = |event5 = |date_event5 = |life_span = |era = Edo period |event_pre =  |date_pre = |event_post =  |date_post =  |image_flag =  |image_border =  |flag_type =  |flag =  |image_coat = |symbol_type = |symbol =  |image_map = |image_map_caption =  |stat_year1 =  |stat_area1 =  |stat_pop1 =  |footnotes =  }} thumb|right|A reconstructed corner tower of Kasama Castle {{nihongo|'''Kasama Domain''' |笠間藩|Kasama-han}} was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Hitachi Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Kasama Castle in what is now the city of Kasama, Ibaraki. It was ruled by a number of clans during its early history, before settling under the rule of a junior branch of the Makino clan from the middle of the Edo period onward.

==History== Kasama Castle was originally the stronghold of the Kasama clan, who ruled the region since the Kamakura period. However, the Kasama were destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi for supporting the Odawara Hōjō, and their lands were given to the Utsunomiya clan, and subsequently to Gamo Hideyuki in 1598. Following the Battle of Sekigahara, Matsudaira Yasushige was promoted to 30,000 ''koku'' from his previous holding of Kisai Domain and was given the newly created Kasama Doman in 1601. However, he was transferred on to Shinoyama Domain in Tamba Province a few years later in 1608. He was replaced at Kasama by Ogasawara Yoshitsugu, who was then relieved of the domain less than a year later due to financial improprieties.

Kasama was revived in 1612 for Matsudaira Yasunaga, the former castellan of Fushimi Castle. He held the domain until his promotion to Takasaki Domain in 1616 for services rendered during the Siege of Osaka. He was replaced by Nagai Naokatsu, one of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s oldest retainers, until 1622.

Kasama then came under the control of Asano Nagashige, followed by his son, Asano Nagano, until the transfer of the Asano clan to Ako Domain in 1645. The Asano were followed by a junior branch of the Inoue clan from 1645 to 1692, followed by the Honjō Matsudaira clan from 1692 to 1702. The Inoue returned to Kasama in 1702, ruling for three generations until 1747. In 1757, Makino Sadamichi, the Kyoto shoshidai and daimyō of Nabeoka Domain in Hyuga Province was transferred to Kasama, which his descendants then held until the Meiji restoration. Under the Makino, the domain became noted for Makino ware, a type of ceramics, as well as for its numerous schools of Japanese swordsmanship, especially that of ''Jigen-ryū'' and ''Yuishin-Ittoryu''. The domain also made efforts towards the opening of new rice lands and development of fertilizers to raise yields, as the expenses of the Makino lords was very great due to the numerous offices they held within the shogunal administration. The domain sided with the Imperial forces during the Boshin War and participated in the Battle of Aizu.

The domain had a 360 samurai households resident at Kasama Castle per a census in the Bunsei era as opposed to 348 households of townspeople.<ref>[http://www1.parkcity.ne.jp/sito/126.html Edo daimyo.net {{in lang|ja}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025063909/http://www1.parkcity.ne.jp/sito/126.html |date=2007-10-25 }}</ref>

==Holdings at the end of the Edo period== As with most domains in the han system, Kasama Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned ''kokudaka'', based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.<ref>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].</ref><ref>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].</ref>

*Hitachi Province **84 villages in Ibaraki District **2 villages in Shida District *Mutsu Province (Iwashiro Province) **5 villages in Ishikawa District *Mutsu Province (Iwashiro Province) **14 villages in Tamura District **12 villages in Iwaseki District **30 villages in Iwaki District

==List of daimyō== {| class=wikitable ! #||Name || Tenure || Courtesy title || Court Rank || ''kokudaka'' |- |colspan=6|30px '''Matsui-Matsudaira clan''' (''fudai'') 1601-1608 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Matsudaira Yasushige|松平康重}}||1601-1608||''Suo-no-kami'' (周防守)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 30,000 ''koku'' |- |colspan=6|30px '''Ogasawara clan''' (''fudai'') 1608-1609 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Ogasawara Yoshitsugu|小笠原吉次}}||1608–1609||''Izumi-no-kami'' (和泉守)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 30,000 ''koku'' |- ||30px||'''''tenryō''''' ||1609–1612|| || || |- |colspan=6|30px '''Toda-Matsudaira clan''' (''fudai'') 1612-1616 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Matsudaira Yasunaga| 松平康長}}||1612-1616|| ''Tango-no-kami'' (丹後守)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 30,000 ''koku'' |- |colspan=6|30px '''Nagai clan''' (''fudai'') 1617-1622 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Nagai Naokatsu| 永井直勝}}||1617-1622||''Ukon-no-taifu'' (右近大夫)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 32,000 => 52,000 ''koku'' |- |colspan=6|30px '''Asano clan''' (''tozama'') 1622-1645 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Asano Nagashige| 浅野長重}}||1622-1632|| ''Uneme-no-kami'' (采女正)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 53,000 ''koku'' |- ||2||{{nihongo|Asano Naganao| 浅野長直}}||1632-1645||''Takumi-no-kami'' (内匠頭)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 53,000 ''koku'' |- |colspan=6|30px '''Inoue clan''' (''fudai'') 1645-1692 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Inoue Masatoshi| 井上正利}}||1645-1675||''Kawachi-no-kami'' (河内守)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 50,000 ''koku'' |- ||2||{{nihongo|Inoue Masato| 井上正任}}||1669-1692||''Nakatsukasa-no-shoyu'' (中務少輔)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 50,000 ''koku'' |- |colspan=6|30px '''Honjo clan''' (''fudai'') 1692-1702 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Honjo Munesuke| 本庄宗資}}||1692-1699||''Inaba-no-kami'' (因幡守)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 40,000 ''koku'' |- ||2||{{nihongo|Matsudaira Suketoshi| 松平資俊}}||1699-1702|| ''Hoki-no-kami'' (伯耆守)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 40,000 ''koku'' |- |colspan=6|30px '''Inoue clan''' (''fudai'') 1702-1747 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Inoue Masamine| 井上正岑}}||1702-1722||''Kawachi-no-kami'' (河内守); Jiju (侍従)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 50,000 ->60,000 ''koku'' |- ||2||{{nihongo|Inoue Masayuki| 井上正之}}||1722-1737||''Kawachi-no-kami'' (河内守)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 60,000 ''koku'' |- ||3||{{nihongo|Inoue Masatune| 井上正経}}||1737-1747||''Kawachi-no-kami'' (河内守); Jiju (侍従) || Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 60,000 ''koku'' |- |colspan=6|30px '''Makino clan''' (''fudai'') 1747-1871 |- ||1||{{nihongo|Makino Sadamichi| 牧野貞通}}||1747-1749||''Bingo-no-kami'' (備後守); Jiju (侍従)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- ||2||{{nihongo|Makino Sadanaga| 牧野貞長}}||1749-1796||''Bingo-no-kami'' (備後守); Jiju (侍従)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- ||3||{{nihongo|Makino Sadaharu| 牧野貞喜}}||1792-1817||''Etchu-no-kami'' (越中守)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- ||4||{{nihongo|Makino Sadamoto| 牧野貞幹}}||1817-1828||''Etchu-no-kami'' (越中守)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- ||5||{{nihongo|Makino Sadakatsu| 牧野貞一}}||1828-1840||''Etchu-no-kami'' (越中守)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- ||6||{{nihongo|Makino Sadanori| 牧野貞勝}}||1840-1841||-none-||-none-|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- ||7||{{nihongo|Makino Sadahisa| 牧野貞久}}||1841-1850||''Etchu-no-kami'' (越中守)|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- ||8||{{nihongo|Makino Sadanao| 牧野貞直}}||1851-1868||''Etchu-no-kami'' (越中守)|| Lower 4th (従四位下)|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- ||9||{{nihongo|Makino Sadayasu| 牧野貞寧}}|| 1868-1871 ||-none-|| Lower 5th (従五位下)|| 80,000 ''koku'' |- |}

==References== *{{cite book | last = Papinot | first = E | year = 1910 | title = Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan | publisher = Tuttle (reprint) 1972 }}

==External links== *{{in lang|ja}} [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/kantou/kasama.html Kasama on "Edo 300 HTML"]{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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