The was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Shimōsa Province (modern-day Chiba Prefecture), Japan. The site of the Oyumi jin'ya is now under a residential area of the city of Chiba. The domain was ruled through its entire history by the Morikawa clan.
History The Oyumi Domain was created in February 1627, when Morikawa Shigetoshi, a hatamoto in the service of Shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada acquired holdings in Sagami, Kazusa and Shimōsa Provinces with revenues exceeding the 10,000 koku necessary to qualify as a daimyō. He was allowed to build a jin'ya on the site of the Sengoku period Oyumi Castle. He later rose to the post of rōjū, and committed junshi on the death of Tokugawa Hidetada. His successors continued to rule the Oyumi Domain until the Meiji Restoration.
Holdings at the end of the Edo period As with most domains in the han system, Oyumi Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18. The domain was centered on what is now Chuo Ward and Midori Ward of the city of Chiba. Shimōsa Province 19 villages in Chiba District 3 villages in Sōsa District 1 village in Kaijō District Kazusa Province 1 village in Nagara District 1 village in Musha District Sagami Province 1 village in Kamakura District 3 villages in Osumi District
List of daimyō Morikawa clan (fudai) 1627-1871
#Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues11627–1632Dewa-no-kami (出羽守) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10, 000 koku21632–1663 Iga-no-kami (伊賀守) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku31663–1692 Dewa-no-kami (出羽守) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku41692–1732Dewa-no-kami (出羽守)Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku51732–1734Naizen-no-kami (内膳正) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku61734–1764 Naizen-no-kami (内膳正)Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku71764–1788Kii-no-kami (紀伊守) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10, 000 koku81788–1838 Naizen-no-kami (内膳正)Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku91838–1855 Dewa-no-kami (出羽守) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku101855–1858Dewa-no-kami (出羽守)Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku111858–1862 Dewa-no-kami (出羽守) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku121862–1871 Naizen-no-kami (内膳正)Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku
References Bolitho, Harold (1974). Treasures among men; the fudai daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. Kodama Kōta 児玉幸多, Kitajima Masamoto 北島正元 (1966). Kantō no shohan 関東の諸藩. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha.
External links Genealogy of the lords of Oyumi
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