270px, Ikeda Yoshinori 270px, Front gate of the Tottori Domain residence in Edo was a feudal domain under the

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Japan, in what is now

Tottori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Tottori Prefecture is the least populous prefecture of Japan at 570,569 (2016) and has a geographic area of . Tottori Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the west, Hir ...

on the island of

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. It controlled all of Inaba Province and virtually all of

Hōki Province was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the western part of Tottori Prefecture. It was sometimes called . Hōki bordered on Inaba, Mimasaka, Bitchū, Bingo, and Izumo Provinces. The ancient capital was in the area that i ...

was centered around

Tottori Castle was a Japanese castle located in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture. History Tottori Castle was constructed in Inaba Province during the Sengoku period as a ''yamashiro'' ("mountain castle") built into the mountain itself, using natural obstacles a ...

, and was ruled throughout its history by a branch of the

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. Tottori Domain was dissolved in the

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in 1871 and is now part of

. Tottori Domain had two sub-domains, and . In addition, the two branches of the Arao clan, who served as hereditary ''

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'' of the clan and castellans of Yonago Castle (15,000 ''koku'') and Kurayoshi Jin'ya (12,000 ''koku'') both had ''kokudaka'' equivalents to that of ''daimyō''.

History

In 1600, after the

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, Ikeda Tsuneoki's third son, Ikeda Nagayoshi (

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's younger brother) was awarded estates in Hōki Province with a ''

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'' of 60,000 '' koku'' by

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. This marked the start of Tottori Domain. In 1615, his son Ikeda Nagayoshi (長幸) was transferred to Bitchū-Matsuyama Domain, and in his place, Ikeda Mitsumasa (the eldest son of Ikeda Toshitaka, the son of Ikeda Terumasa) was transferred from

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to an expanded Tottori Domain (325,000 ''koku'') which now included most of Inaba Province as well as Hōki Province. During his 16 year tenure, he built the foundations of the

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of Tottori. In 1632, when his uncle Ikeda Tadao, of

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died, Mitsumasa exchanged Tottori for Okayama and the clan chieftaincy. Ikeda Tadao's son, Ikeda Mitsunaka became ''

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'' of Tottori at the age of two, and his descendants would continue to rule the domain to the end of the Edo period. Although the Ikeda clan of Tottori was reduced to a branch of the clan, it was Ikeda Tadao's lineage which was in direct descent from Ikeda Terumasa and Tokugawa Ieyasu's second daughter, Tokuhime, so the Ikeda clan of Tottori was regarded by the

as a ''kunimochi daimyō'' clan independent of the head of the Ikeda family of Okayama Domain. In addition to being allowed to use the honorific surname "Matsudaira", the Tottori Ikeda were also allowed the use of the Tokugawa family crest, as well as being formally recognized as Tokugawa relatives ( ''shinpan''. Normally, when a ''daimyō'' entered Edo Castle, he had to leave his sword with a retainer in front of the entrance. In addition to the Tottori Ikeda family, the privilege of retaining one's sword was granted only to the Kaga-

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and the Tokugawa clan's closest relations, which were the Tottori-Ikeda clan, the Aizu-Matsudaira clan, and the Echizen-Matsudaira clan. The domain maintained a secondary castle at

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, and ''

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'' in other important towns within the domain, such as Kurayoshi, Yahashi, Matsuzaki, and Uradome. The domain suffered greatly from the Tenpō famine from 1833 to 1837. During the

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, the 12th ''daimyō'', Ikeda Yoshinori, was the older brother of the 15th

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and had a difficult position between loyalty to the shogunate and the growing forces for the

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. Within the domain, conflicts between the loyalists and the pro-Tokugawa factions were intense, and in 1863, an assassination of a senior vassal of the pro-shogunate faction occurred at Honkoku-ji in Kyoto. In the following year, when

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, with which he had a close relationship, was defeated in the

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and was declared enemy of the crown, he began to distance himself from politics, but in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in 1868 and the Boshin War, he was on the side of the Meiji government army. As a result, he led the clan's forces in various battles. He was awarded 30,000 ''koku'' by the new

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. The domain became part of Tottori Prefecture with the

in 1871. Ikeda Terutomo, the 15th chieftain of the clan, was made a

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in the ''

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'' peerage in 1884.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the

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, Tottori Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned ''

'', based on periodic

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surveys and projected agricultural yields, g. * Inaba Province (entire province) **51 villages in Iwai District **60 villages in Hōmi District **89 villages in Hattō District **63 villages in Yakami District **98 villages in Chizu District **35 villages in Ōmi District **82 villages in Takakusa District **83 villages in Keta District *

**114 villages in Kawamura District **120 villages in Kume District **107 villages in Yabase District **185 villages in Aimi District **65 villages in Aseri District **170 villages in Hino District *

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**1 village in Chichibu District

List of daimyō

Simplified family tree (Ikeda ''daimyō'' of Tottori)

*Ikeda Tsuneoki (1536–1584) **Terumasa, 1st Lord of Himeji (1565–1613) ***Toshitaka, 2nd Lord of Himeji (1584–1616) **** I. Mitsumasa, 3rd Lord of Himeji, 1st Lord of Tottori (2nd creation) (1609–1682; Lord of Himeji: 1614–1617; Lord of Tottori: 1617–1632) *****Tsunamasa, 2nd Lord of Okayama (3rd creation) (1638–1714) ******Masazumi, 6th Lord of Amaki (1706–1766) *******Shizuko, m. Ichijō Michika (1722–1769) ********Ichijō Mitsuruko (1752–1786), m. Tokugawa Harumori, 6th Lord of Mito (1751–1805) *********Tokugawa Harutoshi, 7th Lord of Mito (1773–1816) **********Tokugawa Nariaki, 9th Lord of Mito (1800–1860) *********** XII. Ikeda (Tokugawa) Yoshikatsu, 12th Lord of Tottori, 12th family head (1837–1877; r. 1850–1869; Governor: 1869–1871; family head: 1869–1877), m. Ikeda Hiroko (1842–1872; see below) ************Terutomo, 13th family head, 1st Marquess (1852–1890; family head: 1877–1890; 1st Marquess: 1884) *************Kyōko (1884–1923). m. Ikeda (Tokugawa) Nakahiro, 14th family head, 2nd Marquess (1877–1948; family head: 1890–1948; 2nd Marquess: 1890–1946) **************Narizane, 15th family head (1904–1993; family head: 1948–1993). He adopted a son: *************** ''Toshio, 16th family head'' (b. 1934) ****Tadakatsu, 2nd Lord of Okayama (2nd creation) (1602–1632) ***** I. Mitsunaka, 1st Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1630–1693; r. 1632–1685) ****** II. Tsunakiyo, 2nd Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1648–1711; r. 1685–1700) ******Nakasumi, Lord of Tottori-Shinden (1650–1722) ******* III. Yoshiyasu, 3rd Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1687–1739; r. 1700–1739) ******** IV. Muneyasu, 4th Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1717–1747; r. 1739–1747) ********* V. Shigenobu, 5th Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1746–1783; r. 1747–1783) ********** VI. Harumichi, 6th Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1768–1798; r. 1783–1798) *********** VII. Narikuni, 7th Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1787–1807; r. 1798–1807) *********** VIII. Naritoshi, 8th Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1788–1830; r. 1807–1830) ************ IX. Narimichi, 9th Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1830–1841; r. 1830–1841) **********Nakamasa, 7th Lord of Tottori-Shinden (1780–1841) ***********Nakanori, 8th Lord of Tottori-Shinden (1805–1850) ************ X. Yoshiyuki, 10th Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1832–1848; r. 1841–1848) ************ Seiko (1834–1879) m. XI. Ikeda (Maeda) Yoshitaka, 11th Lord of Tottori (3rd creation) (1834–1850; r. 1848–1850) ***Teruzumi, Lord of Shikano (1604–1662) ****Masatake, 2nd Lord of Fukumoto (1649–1687) *****Masachika (1684–1751) ******Masakatsu (1709–1782) *******Sadatsune, 5th Lord of Wakasa (1767–1833) ********Sadayasu, 7th Lord of Wakasa (1805–1847) *********Hiroko (1842–1872). m. XII. Ikeda (Tokugawa) Yoshikatsu, 12th Lord of Tottori (see above) ** I. Nagayoshi, 1st Lord of Tottori (1st creation) (1570–1614; r. 1600–1614) *** II. Nagayuki, 2nd Lord of Tottori (1st creation) (1587–1632; r. 1614–1617) Ikeda (Tottori) genealogy (jp)
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Shikano Domain

In 1685, Ikeda Mitsunaka gave 25,000 ''koku'' of new rice lands to his second son, Ikeda Nakazumi, and established a cadet branch of the clan. On August 7, 1702, during the last years of Ikeda Nakazumi's reign, an additional 5,000 ''koku'' was added to bring the ''kokudaka'' of the domain to 30,000 ''koku''. It existed as a "paper domain" throughout most of the Edo period with its revenues coming from the treasury of the parent domain, but on December 10, 1868, a ''jin'ya'' was established in what is now the Shikano neighborhood of the city of Tottori. Domain administration was practically non-existent, with officials dispatched from Tottori Domain in charge of domain affairs. The domain existed primarily as "insurance" to prevent attainder of the parent domain should the ruling ''daimyō'' die without a successor. In fact, Ikeda Yoshiyasu, the third ''daimyō'' of Tottori, and Ikeda Yoshiyuki, the tenth ''daimyō'' of Tottori, were adopted from Shikano Domain. On June 27, 1864, the ninth ''daimyō'' of the domain, Ikeda Nakatatsu, committed ''

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'' after a confrontation with Ikeda Yoshinori, the ''daimyō'' of Tottori, over the dispatch of troops to Kyoto. In 1869, the domain was abolished and absorbed back into Tottori Domain. In 1884, a descendant of the last ''daimyō'' of Shikano became a

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in the ''kazoku'' peerage. :

Wakasa Domain

In 1700, Ikeda Tsunakiyo, the second ''daimyō'' of Tottori gave 15,000 ''koku'' of new rice lands to his younger brother Ikeda Kiyosada, and established a cadet branch of the clan. In 1720, an additional 5,000 ''koku'' was added to bring the ''kokudaka'' of the domain to 20,000 ''koku''. As with Shikano Domain, Wakasa existed as a "paper domain" throughout most of the Edo period with its revenues coming from the treasury of the parent domain, but on December 10, 1868, a ''jin'ya'' was established in what is now the Wakasa neighborhood of the city of Tottori. Domain administration was practically non-existent, and officials dispatched from Tottori Domain were in charge of all local domain affairs. The fifth ''daimyō'', Ikeda Sadatsune was a noted literary scholar. In 1884, a descendant of the last ''daimyō'' of Wakasa became a