Takatomi Domain


Takatomi Domain was a fudai feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It was located in Mino Province, in central Honshū. The domain was centered at Takatomi jin'ya, located in what is now the city of Yamagata in Gifu Prefecture.

History

Takatomi Domain was created by Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi for Honjō Michiaki, the grandson of Honjō Michimasa, who was step-brother to his birth-mother Keishōin in 1705. It was originally called Iwataki Domain.
The domain had an assigned kokudaka of 10,000 koku. The jin’ya was transferred to Takatomi in 1709. Honjō Michimasa did not reside in the domain, but remained mostly in Edo Castle. Although his domain was very small, Honjō Michimasa and his successors were assigned many tasks pertaining to placating the kuge nobility in Kyoto, and the domain’s revenues were not commensurate with this task. As a result, by the time of the 8th daimyō the domain was very deeply in debt. The 9th daimyō, Honjō Michitsura, attempted fiscal reforms, including fiscal frugality, planting of forests for harvestable wood, issuance of paper money and increases taxes on his peasantry. He also hired a rice merchant from Kyoto as financial advisor; however none of these measures worked, and in 1868 the domain defaulted on all of its debts, and its peasants rose in revolt. At the time, the domain was 207,400 ryō in debt.
In 1869, the final daimyō, Honjō Michiyoshi, was appointed domain governor under the new Meiji government until the abolition of the han system in 1871. In 1872, the domain became part of Gifu Prefecture.

Bakumatsu period holdings

As with most domains in the han system, Takatomi Domain consisted of a discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.
NameTenureCourtesy titleCourt Rankkokudaka
1Honjō Michiakira1705–1725Kunai-shoyu Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
2Honjō Michinori1725–1745Yamato-no-kami Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
3Honjō Michitomo1745–1756Izumi-no-kami Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
4Honjō Michikata1756–1760Yamato-no-kami Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
5Honjō Michinobu1760–1767Yamato-no-kami Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
6Honjō Michiaki1767–1771Yamashiro-no-kami Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
7Honjō Michitoshi1771–1801Kai-no-kami Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
8Honjō Michimasa1801–1819Shikibu-shoyu Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
9Honjō Michitsura1819–1858Ise-no-kami Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku
10Honjo Michiyoshi1858–1871Kunai-shōyu Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade 10,000 koku