was a Japanese 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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, located in

Tōtōmi Province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today western Shizuoka Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tōtōmi''" in . Tōtōmi bordered on Mikawa, Suruga and Shinano Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was . The or ...

. The domain was centered in what is now the Sagara district of Makinohara city,

Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the north ...

."Tōtōmi Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
retrieved 2013-6-11. The site of the Sagara jin'ya is now the Sagara Elementary School.

History

In 1710, Honda Tadaharu, lord of

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Mikawa Province was an old province in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Mikawa''" in . Its abbreviated form name was . Mikawa bordered on Owari, Mino, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Provinces. M ...

was transferred by the Tokugawa shogunate to Sagara, on the coast of Tōtōmi Province and his revenues were raised from 10,000 '' koku'' to 15,000 ''koku''. The

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ruled Sagara for three generations, until Honda Tadayuki was transferred to Izumi Domain in Mutsu Province in 1746. The Honda were replaced by

Itakura Katsukiyo was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the late Edo period. Famed for his tenure as rōjū, Itakura later became a Shinto priest. Biography Itakura, born to the Hisamatsu-Matsudaira of the Kuwana Domain, was adopted by Itakura Katsutsune, the lord o ...

, who ruled for only three years before being transferred to

Annaka Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Kōzuke Province (modern-day Gunma Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Annaka Castle in what is now the city of Annaka, Gunma. History Ii Naomasa was one of ...

Kōzuke Province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Gunma Prefecture. Kōzuke bordered by Echigo, Shinano, Musashi and Shimotsuke Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, Kōzuke was ra ...

. Sagara was then returned to the Honda clan in the form of Honda Tadanaka, formerly of

Komoro Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It is located in Shinano Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Komoro Castle, located in what is now part of the city of Komoro in Nagano Prefecture.Tanuma Okitsugu (September 11, 1719, in Edo, Japan – August 25, 1788, in Edo) was a chamberlain (''sobashū'') and a senior counselor (''rōjū'') to the ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Ieharu of the Tokugawa Shogunate, in the Edo period of Japan. Tanuma and his ...

, who rose from very humble status as a

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, to chamberlain, and then grand-chamberlain and ''

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'' under Shōgun

Tokugawa Ieharu Tokugawa Ieharu (徳川家治) (June 20, 1737 – September 17, 1786) was the tenth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1760 to 1786. His childhood name was Takechiyo (竹千代). Ieharu died in 1786 and given ...

. He was also elevated to the status of ''

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'' when he was awarded Sagara Domain, and over the years increased its revenues from 10,000 ''koku'' to 57,000 ''koku''. Sagara prospered greatly under his economic reforms, and a road was built linking it to the great Tōkaidō highway connecting

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with

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. However, after Tokugawa Ieharu’s death Tanuma Okitsugu soon fell from favor, and reduced in rank and income. His grandson, Tanuma Okiaki, inherited a domain reduced back to its former 10,000 ''koku'' status in 1787, and less than a year later, was transferred to

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in Mutsu Province. Sagara Domain became a ''

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'' territory ruled directly by the ''Shōgun''. However, in 1823, his son Tanuma Ogimasa was allowed to return to Sagara, where he and his descendants remained until the

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. The domain had a population of 310 samurai at the start of the Meiji period. The domain maintained its primary residence (''kamiyashiki'') in

at Kanda, until the

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(1772–81) period, and at Hanjo at the time of the Meiji restoration.Edo daimyo.net
In February 1869, the final ''daimyō'' of Sagara Domain, Tanuma Okitaka, was transferred by the new

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to the short-lived Kokubo Domain in

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and Sagara Domain was absorbed into the new

Shizuoka Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The domain centered at Sunpu Castle is what is now the Aoi-ku, Shizuoka. From 1869 it was briefly called . History During the Muromachi period, Sunpu was the capital of the ...

created for retired ex-Shōgun

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List of ''daimyōs''

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

** 28 villages in Haibara District ** 12 villages in Kitō District

References

External links

"Sagara" at Edo 300

Makinohara City home page

Notes