, also known as 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 Matsuoka Castle in what is now the city of Takahagi, Ibaraki. With the exception of its first twenty years, was ruled by the Nakayama clan.
History Following the Battle of Sekigahara, in 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu shifted the Satake clan from its ancestral territories in Hitachi Province to Dewa Province in northern Japan. In 1602, he awarded a portion of the former Satake lands to Tozawa Masamori, marking the start of Matsuoka Domain. He served in a number of important posts within the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate, and was subsequently transferred to Shinjō Domain in Dewa Province in 1622. Matsuoka Domain was divided, with 30,000 koku going to Mito Domain and 10,000 koku to Tanagura Domain.
Nakayama Nobuyoshi, a young samurai whose father's sacrifice at Odawara was recognized by Ieyasu, was taken in by Ieyasu as a page in 1590. Following Sekigahara, he would be rewarded for his service by being named karō to Yorifusa in 1607, and following his own bravery serving Yorifusa at Osaka, he and his descendants subsequently named daimyō of the Matsuoka Domain at 20,000 koku as a subordinate domain of Mito following Tozawa's reassignment in 1622.
The 6th daimyō of Matsuoka, Nakayama Nobutoshi, moved his residence to Ōta, and the domain was then referred to as . His descendants continued to reside at Ōta until the time of the 10th daimyō, Nakayama Nobutaka, who returned the seat of the clan back to Matsuoka.
During the Boshin War, the 14th daimyō, Nakayama Nobuaki, sided with the pro-Imperial forces, participating in the Mito Rebellion, and after the Meiji restoration, Matsuoka Domain was finally recognized as independent of Mito Domain in 1868. The following year, the position of daimyō was abolished, and Nakayama Nobuaki became domain governor until retiring from public life with the abolition of the han system in 1871. His son Nobuzane would be created the first Baron Nakayama during the conversion of the old feudal titles to kazoku peerage in 1884.
The domain had a total population of 12,805 people in 2842 households per a census in 1869.Edo daimyo.net
Holdings at the end of the Edo period Unlike most domains in the han system, Matsuoka Domain consisted of a single territory 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.
Hitachi Province 29 villages in Taga District
List of daimyō #Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka Tozawa clan (tozama) 1602–162211602–1622 Ukyo-no-suke (右京亮) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 40,000 koku Nakayama clan (tozama) 1622–18711(ja)1622–1642Bizen-no-kami (備前守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku21642–1651Higashi-ichi-no-kami (東市正)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku31651–1681 Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)) 25,000 koku41681–1682Ichi-no-kami (市正)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku51683–1703Bizen-no-kami (備前守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku61703–1711Bizen-no-kami (備前守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku71711–1712Ichi-no-kami (市正) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku81712–1743Bizen-no-kami (備前守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku91743–1771Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku101771–1819Bitchu-no-kami (備中守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku111819–1828Bitchu-no-kami (備中守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku121828–1857Bingo-no-kami (備後守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku131857–1861Bizen-no-kami (備前守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku14(ja)1861–1871Bitchu-no-kami (1861–1869)Governor of Matsuoka (1869–1871)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 25,000 koku*1871–19341st Baron (男爵)Junior 3rd Rank (従三位)*1935–19472nd Baron (男爵)Nobility abolished per post-war Constitution
References
External links Matsuoka on "Edo 300 HTML"