Funai Domain

Funai Domain (府内藩, Funai-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It is associated with Bungo Province in present-day Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.

Funai Domain
府内藩
Domain of Japan
1601–1871
CapitalFunai Castle
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1601
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofOita Prefecture
Bridge at Funai Castle, seat of the Funai Domain

In the han system, Funai 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.

History

Funai had been the castle of the Ōtomo clan; however, Toyotomi Hideyoshi confiscated it during the lordship of Ōtomo Yoshimune. In 1601, Takenaka Shigetoshi, the cousin of Takenaka Shigeharu (Hanbei), received Funai Castle, and land rated at 20,000 koku; he had switched sides during the Sekigahara Campaign to support Tokugawa Ieyasu. The domain was then given to Hineno Yoshiakira in 1634; however, as he died heirless, the domain was given to the Matsudaira (Ogyū) clan. The Matsudaira clan remained daimyōs of Funai until the Meiji Restoration.

List of daimyōs

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

  1. Shigetoshi (cousin of Takenaka Hanbei)
  2. Shigeyoshi
  • Hineno clan, 1634–1656 (tozama; 20,000 koku)
  1. Yoshiakira
  1. Tadaaki
  2. Chikanobu
  3. Chikayoshi
  4. Chikasada
  5. Chikanori
  6. Chikatomo
  7. Chikayoshi
  8. Chikakuni
  9. Chikanobu
  10. Chikayoshi

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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