was a '' Fudai'' feudal domain under the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in ...

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Japan. It was located in eastern

Ōmi Province was a province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō circuit. Its nickname is . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, Ōmi was ranked as one of the 13 "great countri ...

, in the

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of central

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. The domain was centered at Mikami ''jin'ya'', located in what is now the city of Yasu in

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History

The Endō clan ruled the 24,000 '' koku''

Gujō Domain reconstructed ''tenshu'' of Gujō-Hachiman Castle was a '' fudai'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It was located in northern Mino Province and southern Echizen Province, in central Honshū. The domain was centered at Gujō Hachiman Castle, ...

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from the start of the

. On the death of Endō Tsuneharu, the retainers of the clan were divided by an ''

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'' over the succession, and when seven-year old Endō Tsuneharu died in 1693, the domain was dissolved due to

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. However in light of the services the early Endō clan had given to

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fel ...

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agreed to preserve the clan name, which was assigned to the eldest son of one of his ''

hatamoto A was a high ranking samurai in the direct service of the Tokugawa shogunate of feudal Japan. While all three of the shogunates in Japanese history had official retainers, in the two preceding ones, they were referred to as ''gokenin.'' Howev ...

'', Shirasu Tadayasu, who was married to the daughter of one of his concubines, Oden-no-kata. This son was assigned the name of "Endō Tanechika", and was raised by Toda Ujichika of Ogaki Domain. He was assigned an estate of 10,000 ''koku'' in

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and

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s on reaching his maturity. In 1698, he was transferred to Ōmi Province. This marks the start of Mikami Domain. The 5th ''daimyō'', Endō Tanenori, served as ''

wakadoshiyori The ', or "Junior Elders", were high government officials in the Edo period Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867). The position was established around 1633, but appointments were irregular until 1662. The four to six ''wakadoshiyori'' w ...

'' and supervised the reconstruction of the Nishi-no-maru enclosure of Edo Castle, for which he was awarded an increase in ''

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'' to 12,000 ''koku''. In 1860, he received a promotion in status allowing him to build a

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in place of his ''jin'ya'', although no castle was actually built. His successor and final ''daimyō'', Endō Taneki, was ''

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'' over the ''

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'' (shogunal military academy) from 1863 and participated in the

First Chōshū expedition The First Chōshū expedition ( ja, 第一次長州征討) was a punitive military expedition by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Chōshū Domain in September–November 1864. The expedition was in retaliation for Chōshū's role in the attack ...

of 1864. Under

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he was appointed a '' sōshaban'' and was in the shogun's inner circle. For this reason, the nascent

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regarded him as an enemy, and in January 1868 deprived of his domain. However, he was pardoned in May 1868 and installed as Imperial governor of Mikami in June. On July 1, 1870, he relocated his seat to Yoshimi in

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and the domain was officially renamed during the final months before 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) ...

Bakumatsu period holdings

As with most domains in the

han system ( ja, 藩, "domain") is a Japanese historical term for the estate of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912). Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Han"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 283. or (daimyo domain) ...

, Mikami Domain consisted of a discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned ''

'', based on periodic

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surveys and projected agricultural yields.Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987)
''Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century,'' p. 18
*

**8 villages in Izumi District **4 villages in Hine District *

**3 villages in Kurita District **2 villages in Yasu District **3 villages in Kōka District

List of daimyō

Endō clan Endō, Endo, Endoh or Endou (written: , literally 'far-off wisteria' and short for ' ''Fuji''wara in ''En''shu') is the 38th most common Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * , Japanese actress * Akari Endo (born 1989), Domi ...

('' Fudai'') 1698-1871

References

*''The content of this article was largely derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.'' * **

Notes

{{Reflist Domains of Japan History of Shiga Prefecture Ōmi Province

History

Bakumatsu period holdings

List of daimyō

See also

References

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