was a
feudal domain under the
Tokugawa shogunate
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of
Edo period
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Japan. The domain was centered at
Kōfu Castle what is now the city of
Kōfu, Yamanashi.
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retrieved 2013-7-8.
History
Kai Province was initially entrusted to important
Tokugawa clan
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members as Kōfu Domain, and later to the highly placed ''
fudai daimyō''
Yanagisawa clan
The was a Japanese samurai clan who rose to prominence under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The main branch of the clan ruled as ''daimyō'' of Yamato-Kōriyama Domain in Yamato Province (150,120 ''koku'') until the Meiji restoration, and w ...
, with periods of direct shogunal rule ( ''
tenryō
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'' ) in between. Following the transfer of Yanagisawa Yoshisato to
Yamato Province
was a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2005). "Yamato" in . It was also called . Yamato consists of two characters, 大 "great", and 和 " Wa". At first, ...
in 1724, the domain remained under direct shogunal control until the
Meiji Restoration
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.
Kofu-han at Edo-300
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With the abolition of the han system
The in the Empire of Japan and its replacement by a system of prefectures in 1871 was the culmination of the Meiji Restoration begun in 1868, the starting year of the Meiji period. Under the reform, all daimyos (, ''daimyō'', feudal lords) ...
in July 1871, Kōfu Domain became “Kōfu Prefecture”, which subsequently was renamed Yamanashi Prefecture.
List of daimyō
:
See also
* List of Han
References
*
External links
"Kōfu" at Edo 300
Notes
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States and territories disestablished in 1724
Kai Province