Inuyama Domain


file:Ogasawara Yoshitsugu.jpg|right|thumb|270px|Ogasawara Yoshitsugu, founder of Inuyama Domain
file:Naruse Masamitsu.jpg|right|thumb|270px|Naruse Masamitsu, final daimyo of Inuyama Domain
The Inuyama Domain was a feudal domain in Owari Province, Japan. It was not officially designated as a domain by the Tokugawa Shogunate, when major domains were established, but was finally designated a domain in 1868. The domain was controlled from Inuyama Castle, which is located in present-day Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture.

History

Ishikawa Mitsuyoshi, the daimyo of Inuyama Castle, who joined the West Army at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, was deprived of his fief, and instead, Matsudaira Tadayoshi the fourth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who joined the Kiyosu Domain, entered Owari with 520,000 koku. At this time, it was the beginning of Inuyama's territory that Ogasawara Yoshitsugu was given territory to Inuyama as the chief retainer of Tadayoshi. In 1607, Yoshitsugu was transferred to the Shimosa Sakura Domain. In this year, in the Kiyosu Domain, the daimyo of the domain, Tadayoshi, died of illness without an heir, and the Kiyosu Domain became a uninusted and kaieki. After that, Ieyasu's ninth son, Tokugawa Yoshinao, ruled Owari as the lord of the Owari Domain, and Hiraiwa Chikakichi, a senior vassal of the Tokugawa clan, entered Inuyama Castle with 113,000 koku as Yoshinao's chief retainer. However, in 1611, Chikayoshi died of illness without an heir, and according to his will, his territory was absorbed by the Owari Domain.
In 1617, Naruse Masashige, a chief retainer of Yoshinao, entered with 30,000 koku, and Naruse Inuyama, who assisted the Owari Domain, was established here. In 1659, when the third head of the family, Naurse Masachika, he ruled a total of 35,000 koku with an increase of 5,000 koku, and became a senior vassal who ruled the largest chigyo of the Owari Domain. In addition, Inuyama Castle was developed under the reign of Yoshitsugu, and the castle town and castle were maintained, and it is considered to be a national treasure as a castle with the oldest keep. In January 1868, due to the new government's Ishin-Ritsuhan, the Inuyama Naruse clan officially became the lord of the Inuyama Domain and became independent from the Owari Domain of the Owari Tokugawa clan. In 1869, the final daimyo of the domain, Naruse Masamitsu, was appointed as the governor of the Inuyama Domain due to the return of lands and people.
On July 14, 1871 the Inuyama Domain became Inuyama Prefecture, and on November 22, it was merged into Nagoya Prefecture. Later, after the name of this Nagoya Prefecture was renamed Aichi Prefecture, Nukata Prefecture were merged.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

  • Owari Province
  • *Aichi County - 3 villages
  • *Kasugai-gun - 6 villages
  • *Niwa County - 33 villages
  • *Haguri County - 1 village
  • *Nakajima-gun - 4 villages
  • *Kaito County
  • *Kaisai County - 1 village
  • *Chita County - 4 villages
  • Mino Province
  • *Nakajima County - 3 villages
  • *Tage County - 1 village
  • *Anpachi County - 2 villages

List of daimyo

The Inuyama Domain was controlled by three families: Ogasawara, Hiraiwa, and Naruse.