Fukuoka Domain


Fukuoka Domain was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Chikuzen Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. The domain was also sometimes referred to as Chikuzen Domain, or as Kuroda Domain, after the ruling Kuroda family.
In the han system, Fukuoka was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area. This was different from the feudalism of the West. With its rating of 473,000 koku, the domain was the fifth-largest in Japan, excluding the domains held by the Tokugawa-Matsudaira dynasty.

List of ''daimyōs''

The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
Kuroda clan, 1600–1868
  1. Nagamasa
  2. Tadayuki
  3. Mitsuyuki
  4. Tsunamasa
  5. Nobumasa
  6. Tsugutaka
  7. Haruyuki
  8. Harutaka
  9. Naritaka
  10. Narikiyo
  11. Nagahiro
  12. Nagatomo
  13. Prince Arisugawa Taruhito

    Family tree

As Tsugutaka, the sixth daimyō, was without heirs, he adopted an heir from a branch of the Tokugawa family to continue the line: