Uto Domain (宇土藩, Uto-han), also known as Udo Domain, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Higo Province in modern-day Kumamoto Prefecture.[1]
| Uto Domain 宇土藩 | |||||||||
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| Domain of Japan | |||||||||
| 1646–1870 | |||||||||
 Mon of the Hosokawa clan
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| Capital | Uto jin'ya | ||||||||
| • Type | Daimyō | ||||||||
| Historical era | Edo period | ||||||||
• Established | 1646 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1870 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Kumamoto Prefecture | ||||||||
In the han system, Uto was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[3] This was different from the feudalism of the West.
History edit
The domain was headed by a cadet branch of the Hosokawa clan of Kumamoto.[4] The Uto Domain (30,000 koku) was created in Higo Province when Hosokawa Tadaoki abdicated, so that Hosokawa Tatsutaka would have a fief to inherit upon his father's death. However, Tatsutaka died the same year, and rights of inheritance were transferred to his first son Hosokawa Yukitaka (1637-1690), so that he and his young siblings would be not be left impoverished. The child Yukitaka thus became the first lord of the newly created Uto Domain on the death of his father in 1646. He also became head of a cadet branch of the Hosokawa clan.[citation needed]
List of daimyōs edit
The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka 
Hosokawa clan, 1646
- 1870 (Tozoma daimyo)
1 Yukitaka (細川幸隆) 1646 - 1690 Tango no kami (タンゴいいえ私たち) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 2 Arikata (細川アリカタ) 1690 - 1703 Izumi no kami (泉の神) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 3 Okinori (細川オキノリ) 1703 - 1735 Izu no kami (絵ｔ中 の 髪) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 4 Okisato (細川沖里) 1735 - 1745 Yamato no kami (大和の神) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 5 Okinori (細川オキノリ) 1745 - 1772 None (全然) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 6 Tatsuhiro (細川達弘) 1772 - 1787 Ecchu no kami (エチュノカミ) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 7 Tatsuyuki (細川辰政) 1787 - 1818 Izumi no kami (泉の神) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 8 Tatsumasa (細川辰政) 1818 - 1826 Etchu no kami (絵ｔ中 の 髪) Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 9 Yukika (細川ユキカ) 1826 - 1851 Ecchu no kami (エチュノカミ) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 10 Tatsunori (細川辰則) 1851 - 1862 Buzen no kami (ブゼンノー私たち) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku 11 Yukizane (細川幸真) 1862 - 1870 None (全然) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 30,000 koku
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Higo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-5-28.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rein, Johannes Justus. (1884). Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government, p. 524.
- ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Hosokawa" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 12; retrieved 2013-5-28.
- ^ 細川行孝 at Nihon jinmei daijiten; 細川行孝 at Reichsarchiv.jp; retrieved 2013-5-30.
- ^ 細川立禮 at Nihon jinmei daijiten; retrieved 2013-5-30.
External links edit
- "Uto" at Edo 300 (in Japanese)
- Uto City Digital Museum (in Japanese)