Niiya Domain

Niiya Domain
新谷藩
Domain of Japan
1623–1871
Rinfukaku of Niiya Jinya
Mon of the Katō clan of Niiya Domain
CapitalNiiya jin'ya
Area
 • Coordinates33°32′21.0″N 132°35′52.9″E / 33.539167°N 132.598028°E / 33.539167; 132.598028
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1623
1871
Contained within
 • ProvinceIyo
Today part ofEhime Prefecture
Niiya Domain is located in Ehime Prefecture
Niiya Domain
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Location of Ōzu Castle
Niiya Domain is located in Japan
Niiya Domain
Niiya Domain (Japan)
Katō Yasunori, final daimyō of Niiya Domain
entrance to the Niiya jin'ya

Niiya Domain (新谷藩, Niiya-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now western Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It was centered around Niiya jin'ya in what is now part of the city of Ōzu, Ehime, and was ruled throughout its history by a cadet branch of tozama daimyō Katō clan. Niiya Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 and is now part of Ehime Prefecture.[1][2][3]

History

In 1617, Ōzu Domain was assigned to Katō Sadayasu from Yonago Domain, with a kokudaka to 66,000 koku. Sadayasu died suddenly in 1623 without formally having appointed a successor, which would normally be cause for attainder; however, his eldest son Katō Yasuaki managed to secure an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and was accepted as heir. However, the shogunate also "informally" recognized his younger brother, Katō Naoyasu, as daimyō of his own 10,000 koku estate and to establish Niiya Domain and a cadet branch of the Katō clan. This move was made without the prior knowledge of Katō Yasuaki and was thus vehemently opposed by Ōzu Domain, and relations between the two branches of the clan was hostile for the next two centuries. Niiya Domain was left in the ambitious position of both being a subsidiary domain of Ōzu and a direct domain under the shogunate.[1] The jin'ya was completed in 1642. The history of the domain was relatively uneventful. The noted Confucian scholar Nakae Tōju spent part of his early career in Niiya. In the latter half of the Edo period, the domain's finances were in serious trouble due to flooding and fires caused by the flooding of the Hiji River. During the Boshin War, the domain fielded a company of commoner riflemen in the pro-imperial army, but otherwise played no role. With the 1871 abolition of the han system Ōzu Domain became "Ōzu Prefecture" and merged with "Uwajima Prefecture" before becoming part of Ehime Prefecture. The Kato clan was awarded the title of viscount user the kazoku peerage system in 1884.[4]

A building of former jin'ya of the domain survives, and is designated a Ehime Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property. It is located within the grounds of the Ozu Municipal Niiya Elementary School.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the han system, Niiya Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[5][6]

List of daimyō

# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
Katō clan, 1623-1871 (Tozama)
1 Katō Naoyasu (加藤直泰) 1623 1682 Oribe-no-kami (織部正) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
2 Katō Yasukado (加藤泰觚) 1682 - 1716 Izumo-no-kami (出雲守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
3 Katō Yasutsura (加藤泰貫) 1716 - 1727 Ōkura-no-Shōyū (大蔵少輔) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
4 Katō Yasuhiro (加藤泰広) 1727 - 1756 Oribe-no-kami (織部正) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
5 Katō Yasunobu (加藤泰宦) 1756 - 1771 Ōmi-no-kami (近江守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
6 Katō Yasumasa (加藤泰賢) 1771 - 1810 Izumo-no-kami (出雲守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
7 Katō Yasutomo (加藤泰儔) 1810 - 1831 Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
8 Katō Yasutada (加藤泰理) 1831 - 1862 'Ōkura-no-Shōyū (大蔵少輔) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
9 Katō Yasunori (加藤泰令) 1862 - 1871 Izumo-no-kami (出雲守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku -

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Nakayama, Yoshiaki (2015). 江戸三百藩大全 全藩藩主変遷表付. Kosaido Publishing. ISBN 978-4331802946.(in Japanese)
  2. ^ Nigi, Kenichi (2004). 藩と城下町の事典―国別. Tokyodo Printing. ISBN 978-4490106510.
  3. ^ Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.
  4. ^ 官報』第308号、明治17年7月9日。(Official Gazette, No. 308, July 9, Meiji 17.)
  5. ^ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  6. ^ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.

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