{{Short description|Japanese feudal domain}} {{nihongo|''' Kōfu Domain''' |甲府藩| Kōfu-han}} was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The domain was centered at Kōfu Castle what is now the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi.<ref name="explorer">[http://www.japanese-castle-explorer.com/province.html?name=Kai "Kai Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com]; retrieved 2013-7-8.</ref>
==History== Kai Province was initially entrusted to important Tokugawa clan members as Kōfu Domain, and later to the highly placed ''fudai daimyō'' Yanagisawa clan, with periods of direct shogunal rule ( ''tenryō'' ) in between. Following the transfer of Yanagisawa Yoshisato to Yamato Province in 1724, the domain remained under direct shogunal control until the Meiji Restoration.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/hokuriku/kofu.html |title=Kofu-han at Edo-300 |access-date=2007-09-22 |archive-date=2012-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128234302/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/hokuriku/kofu.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
With the abolition of the han system in July 1871, Kōfu Domain became “Kōfu Prefecture”, which subsequently was renamed Yamanashi Prefecture.
== List of daimyō == :{| class=wikitable ! #||Name || Tenure || Courtesy title || Court Rank || ''kokudaka''||Notes |- |colspan=6| 25px Tokugawa clan, 1603-1704 (''shinpan'') <ref name="explorer"/> |- ||1||{{nihongo|Tokugawa Yoshinao| 徳川義直}}||1603–1607||''Uhōe-no-kami'' (右兵衛督)|| Lower 4th (従四位下) || 250,000 ''koku''||9th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu |- ||2||{{nihongo|Tokugawa Tadanaga| 徳川忠長}}||1618–1624|| ''Gon-Chūnagon'' (権中納言)||Third (従三位)|| 238,000 ''koku''||3rd son of Tokugawa Hidetada |- ||3||{{nihongo|Tokugawa Tsunashige| 徳川綱重}}||1661–1678||''Sangi'' (参議) || 3rd (従三位) || 250,000->350,000 ''koku''||3rd son of Tokugawa Iemitsu |- ||4||{{nihongo|Tokugawa Tsunatoyo| 徳川綱豊}}||1678–1704|| ''Gon-Chūnagon'' (権中納言)|| 3rd (従三位) || 350,000 ''koku''||1st son of Tokugawa Tsunashige<br>became 6th Shōgun, Tokugawa Ienobu |- |colspan=6| 25px Yanagisawa clan, 1704-1724 (''fudai'')<ref name="papinot70">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 "Yanagisawa" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', pp. 70-71]; retrieved 2013-7-8.</ref> |- ||1||{{nihongo|Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu| 柳沢吉保}}<ref name="papinot70"/>||1704–1709|| ''Mino-no-kami'' (美濃守); Sakonoe-shoshō (左権少将)|| Lower 4th (従四位下) || 150,000 ''koku''||transfer from Kawagoe Domain |- ||2||{{nihongo|Yanagisawa Yoshisato| 柳沢吉里}}<ref name="papinot70"/>||1709–1724||''Kai-no-kami''(甲斐守)<br>''Jijū'' (侍従)|| 3rd (従三位)||150,000 ''koku''||Eldest son of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu<br>transferred to Yamato-Kōriyama Domain |- |colspan=6| 25px Tokugawa clan, 1724-1871(''tenryō'') <ref name="explorer"/>|| |- |}
== See also == * List of Han
==Notes== {{reflist}}
==References== *{{cite book | last = Papinot | first = E | year = 1910 | title = Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan | publisher = Tuttle (reprint) 1972 }}
==External links== * [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/hokuriku/kofu.html "Kōfu" at Edo 300] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128234302/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/hokuriku/kofu.html |date=2012-01-28 }} {{in lang|ja}}
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