Kokura Domain

Kokura Domain (小倉藩, Kokura-han), also known as "Kawara-han" (香春藩) or then "Toyotsu-han" (豊津藩), was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Buzen Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.

Toyotsu Domain
(1870–1871)
豊津藩
Kawara Domain
(1867–1870)
香春藩
Kokura Domain
(1600–1867)
小倉藩
Domain of Japan
1600–1871
CapitalKokura Castle (1600–1867)
Kawara jin'ya (1867–70)
Toyotsu jin'ya (1870–71)
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
Meiji period
• Established
1600
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofFukuoka Prefecture
Kokura Castle

In the han system, Kokura was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[1] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[2] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

List of daimyōs

The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.

Hosokawa clan, 1600–1632 (tozama; 399,000 koku)

  1. Tadaoki
  2. Tadatoshi

Ogasawara clan, 1632–1871 (fudai; 150,000 koku)

  1. Tadazane
  2. Tadataka
  3. Tadamoto
  4. Tadafusa
  5. Tadamitsu
  6. Tadakata
  7. Tadaakira
  8. Tadahiro
  9. Tadatoshi
  10. Tadanobu

See also

References
Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  2. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.

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