{{Infobox former subdivision |_noautocat = |native_name = 宇土藩 |conventional_long_name = Uto Domain |common_name = Uto Domain |subdivision = Han |nation = |status_text = Domain of Japan |government_type = Daimyō |p1 = Kumamoto Domain |flag_p1 = |s1 = Kumamoto Domain |flag_s1 = <!-- General information --> |capital = Uto ''jin'ya'' |coordinates = {{coord|32|41|03.83|N|130|39|41.49|E}} |political_subdiv = <!-- Accepts wikilinks --> |today = Kumamoto Prefecture <!-- Rise and fall, events, years and dates --> <!-- Only fill in the start/end event entry if a specific article exists. Don't just say "abolition" or "declaration". --> |year_start = 1646 |year_end = 1870 |event_start = |date_start = |event_end = <!-- Default: "Disestablished" --> |date_end = <!-- Optional: Date of disestablishment --> |event1 = |date_event1 = |event2 = |date_event2 = |event3 = |date_event3 = |event4 = |date_event4 = |event5 = |date_event5 = |life_span = |era = Edo period |event_pre = <!-- Optional: A crucial event that took place before before "event_start" --> |date_pre = |event_post = <!-- Optional: A crucial event that took place before after "event_end" --> |date_post = <!-- Images --> |image_flag = <!-- Default: Flag of {{{common_name}}}.svg --> |image_border = <!-- Default: "border"; for non-rectangular flag, type "no" --> |flag_type = <!-- Displayed text for link under flag. Default "Flag" --> |flag = <!-- Link target under flag image. Default: Flag of {{{common_name}}} --> |image_coat = File:Japanese Crest Hosokawa Kuyou.svg |symbol_type = ''Mon'' of the Hosokawa clan |symbol = <!-- Link target under symbol image. Default: Coat of arms of {{{common_name}}} --> |image_map = |image_map_caption = <!-- Area and population of a given year (up to 5) --> |stat_year1 = <!-- year of the statistic, specify either area, population or both, numbered 1–5 --> |stat_area1 = <!-- area in square kilometres (w/o commas or spaces), area in square miles is calculated --> |stat_pop1 = <!-- population (w/o commas or spaces), population density is calculated if area is also given --> |footnotes = <!-- Accepts wikilinks -->
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right|thumb|270px| Hosokawa Yukizane, final daimyo of Uto Domain
{{nihongo|'''Uto Domain'''|宇土藩|Uto-han}} was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was regarded as a sub-domain of Kumamoto Domain. It was based at the ''Uto jin'ya'' in what is now the city of Uto, Kumamoto. It was ruled by a cadet branch of the ''tozama daimyō'' Hosokawa clan for all of its history.<ref name="Nakayama">{{cite book |last1=Nakayama |first1=Yoshiaki |title=江戸三百藩大全 全藩藩主変遷表付 |date=2015 |publisher=Kosaido Publishing |isbn= 978-4331802946}}{{in lang|ja}}</ref><ref name="Nigi">{{cite book |last1=Nigi |first1=Kenichi |title=藩と城下町の事典―国別 |date=2004 |publisher=Tokyodo Printing |isbn=978-4490106510}}</ref><ref name="Papinot">{{cite book | last = Papinot | first = E| year = 1910| title = Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan | publisher = Tuttle (reprint) 1972 }}</ref>
==History== The domain was headed by a cadet branch of the Hosokawa clan of Kumamoto.<ref>Rein, Johannes Justus. (1884). [https://books.google.com/books?id=BrzteY1ur2kC&dq=hosokawa+at+Udo&pg=PA524 ''Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government,'' p. 524].</ref> In 1624, the second ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto Domain, Hosokawa Mitsunao set aside estates in Uto District and Shimomashiki District in Higo Province with a ''kokudaka'' of 30,000 ''koku'' for his cousin, Hosokawa Yukitaka, and authorized him to establish a cadet branch of the Hosokawa clan.<ref>[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E8%A1%8C%E5%AD%9D 細川行孝] at ''Nihon jinmei daijiten''; [http://reichsarchiv.jp/%E5%AE%B6%E7%B3%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E6%B0%8F%EF%BC%88%E8%82%A5%E5%BE%8C%E5%AE%87%E5%9C%9F%E8%97%A9%E4%B8%BB%E5%AE%B6%EF%BC%89 細川行孝 at Reichsarchiv.jp]; retrieved 2013-5-30.</ref> This was done partly as "insurance" to ensure the survival of the parent domain in the event that succession of the main lineage fail. The headquarters for this new domain was near the ruins of Uto Castle, but as a subsidiary domain, Hosokawa Yukitaka was not authorized to rebuild the castle, but instead constructed a ''jin'ya'' as his stronghold and administrative center. The domain survived for 11 generations until it was merged back into Kumamoto Domain in 1870 and then abolished with the Meiji restoration. #<ref>[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E7%AB%8B%E7%A6%AE 細川立禮] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507070111/http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E7%AB%8B%E7%A6%AE |date=2013-05-07 }} at ''Nihon jinmei daijiten''; retrieved 2013-5-30.</ref>
== List of ''daimyō'' == :{| class=wikitable ! #<ref name="papinot12">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 "Hosokawa" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 12]; retrieved 2013-5-28.</ref>||Name || Tenure || Courtesy title || Court Rank || ''kokudaka'' |- |colspan=6|25px '''Hosokawa clan,''' 1646 - 1870 '''(''Tozama daimyo'')''' |- ||1||Hosokawa Yukitaka (細川幸隆)||1646 - 1690|| ''Tango-no-kami (丹後守)'' ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||2||Hosokawa Arikata (細川有孝)||1690 - 1703|| ''Izumi-no-kami'' (和泉守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||3||Hosokawa Okinori (細川興生)||1703 - 1735|| ''Izu-no-kami / Yamashiro-no-kami'' (伊豆守、山城守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||4||Hosokawa Okisato (細川興里)||1735 - 1745|| ''Yamato-no-kami'' (大和守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||5||Hosokawa Okinori]] (細川興文)||1745 - 1772|| ''Nakatsukasa-no-shosuke'' (中務少輔) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||6||Hosokawa Narishige (細川斉茲)||1772 - 1787|| ''Izumi-no-kami / Etchu-no-kami'' (和泉守、越中守) ||Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||7||Hosokawa Tatsuyuki (細川立之)||1787 - 1818|| ''Izumi no kami'' (和泉守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||8||Hosokawa Narimori (細川斉護)||1818 - 1826|| ''Etchu-no-kami / Sakon'e-no-chujo'' (越中守、左近衛権中将、侍従) |||Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||9||Hosokawa Yukika (細川行芬)||1826 - 1851|| ''Buzen-no-kami / Saemon-no-jo'' (豊前守、 左衛門尉) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||10||Hosokawa Tatsunori (細川立則)||1851 - 1862|| ''Yamashiro-no-kami'' (山城守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- ||11||Hosokawa Yukizane (細川行真)||1862 - 1870|| ''Yamato-no-kami / Buzen-no-kami'' (大和守、豊前守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||30,000 ''koku'' |- |}
== See also == * Abolition of the han system * List of Han
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/kyushu/uto.html "Uto" at Edo 300] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128232017/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/kyushu/uto.html |date=2012-01-28 }} {{in lang|ja}} * [http://www.city.uto.kumamoto.jp/museum/07nenpyo/nenpyo.html Uto City Digital Museum] {{in lang|ja}}
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