Sakura Domain
# Sakura Domain

Sakura Domain (佐倉藩, Sakura-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Shimōsa Province (modern-day Chiba Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Sakura Castle in what is now the city of Sakura, Chiba. It was ruled for most of its history by the Hotta clan.

## History

Sakura Domain was originally created for Takeda Tadateru, the fifth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1593, near the site of an ancient castle of the Chiba clan, which had fallen into ruins in the early Sengoku period. The domain subsequently passed through a bewildering number of hands during the 1600s, before coming under the control of the Hotta clan in the mid-18th century. During the Bakumatsu period, Hotta Masayoshi was one of the major proponents of rangaku and an ending to the country’s national isolation policy. He was one of the signers of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States. His son, Hotta Masatomo was a key supporter of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early stages of the Boshin War. After the Meiji Restoration, he was pardoned, and eventually made a count (hakushaku) in the kazoku peerage.

## Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the han system, Sakura Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.

* Shimōsa Province
   * 31 villages in Chiba District
   * 146 villages in Imba District
   * 26 villages in Shimohabu District
   * 3 villages in Katori District
   * 3 villages in Sōsa District
   * 2 villages in Kaijō District
   * 8 villages in Sōma District
* Dewa Province (Uzen)
   * 45 villages in Murayama District
* Hitachi Province
   * 3 villages in Tsukuba District
   * 3 villages in Makabe District
* Shimotsuke Province
   * 16 villages in Tsuga District
   * 10 villages in Shioya District
* Musashi Province
   * 3 villages in Saitama District
   * 1 village in Koma District
   * 2 villages in Iruma District
   * 14 villages in Yokomi District
* Sagami Province
   * 5 villages in Kōza District
   * 10 villages in Ōsumi District
   * 2 villages in Aiko District

## List of daimyō

| # | Name | Tenure | Courtesy title | Court Rank | kokudaka |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Takeda clan (shimpan) 1593-1602 ||||||
| 1 | Takeda Nobuyoshi (武田信吉) | 1593–1602 | -none- | -none- | 40,000 koku |
| Matsudaira clan (shimpan) 1602-1603 ||||||
| 1 | Matsudaira Tadateru (松平忠輝) | 1602–1603 | Sakone-no-shosho (左近衛少将) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 50,000 koku |
| Ogasawara clan (fudai) 1603-1608 ||||||
| 1 | Ogasawara Yoshitsugu (小笠原吉次) | 1603–1608 | Izumi-no-kami (和泉守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 22,000 koku |
| Doi clan (fudai) 1608-1633 ||||||
| 1 | Doi Toshikatsu (土井利勝) | 1608–1633 | Ōi-no-kami (大炊頭); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 32,000 –> 142,000 koku |
| Ishikawa clan (fudai) 1633-1634 ||||||
| 1 | Ishikawa Tadafusa (石川忠総) | 1633–1634 | Tonomo-no-kami (大炊頭) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 70,000 koku |
| Matsudaira (Katahara) clan (fudai) 1634-1640 ||||||
| 1 | Matsudaira Ienobu (松平家信) | 1634-1638 | Kii-no-kami (紀伊守) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 40,000 koku |
| 2 | Matsudaira Ienobu (松平康信) | 1638–1640 | Wakasa-no-kami (若狭守) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 40,000 koku |
| Hotta clan (fudai) 1642-1640 ||||||
| 1 | Hotta Masamori (堀田正盛) | 1642-1651 | Dewa-no-kami (出羽守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 110,000 koku |
| 2 | Hotta Masanobu (堀田正信) | 1651–1660 | Kozuke-no-suke　(上野介) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 110,000 koku |
| Matsudaira clan (fudai) 1661-1678 ||||||
| 1 | Matsudaira Norihisa (松平乗久) | 1661–1678 | Izumi-no-kami (和泉守) | Lower 4th (従五位下) | 60,000 koku |
| Ōkubo clan (fudai) 1678-1686 ||||||
| 1 | Ōkubo Tadatomo (松平乗久) | 1678–1686 | Kaga-no-kami (加賀守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 83,000 –> 93,000 koku |
| Toda clan (fudai) 1699-1701 ||||||
| 1 | Toda Tadamasa (戸田 忠昌) | 1686–1699 | Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 61,000 –> 71,000 koku |
| 1 | Toda Tadazane (戸田忠真) | 1699–1701 | Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 71,000 koku |
| Inaba clan (fudai) 1701-1723 ||||||
| 1 | Inaba Masamichi (稲葉正往) | 1701–1707 | Tango-no-kami (丹後守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 102,000 koku |
| 2 | Inaba Masatomo (稲葉正知) | 1707–1723 | Tango-no-kami (丹後守) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 102,000 koku |
| Matsudaira clan (fudai) 1723-1746 ||||||
| 1 | Matsudaira Norisato (松平乗邑) | 1723–1745 | Izumi-no-kami (和泉守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 60,000 koku |
| 2 | Matsudaira Norisuke (松平乗祐) | 1745–1746 | Izumi-no-kami (和泉守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 60,000 koku |
| Hotta clan (fudai) 1746-1871 ||||||
| 1 | Hotta Masasuke (堀田正亮) | 1746–1761 | Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 100,000 ->110,000 koku |
| 2 | Hotta Masanari (堀田正順) | 1761–1805 | Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 110,000 koku |
| 3 | Hotta Masatoki (堀田正時) | 1805–1811 | Sagami-no-kami (相模守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 110,000 koku |
| 4 | Hotta Masachika (堀田正愛) | 1811–1824 | Sagami-no-kami (相模守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 110,000 koku |
| 5 | Hotta Masayoshi (堀田正睦) | 1825–1859 | Sagami-no-kami (相模守) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 110,000 koku |
| 6 | Hotta Masatomo (堀田正倫) | 1859–1871 | Sagami-no-kami (相模守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 110,000 koku |
