Ōmura Domain

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Ōmura Domain
大村藩
Domain of Japan
1587–1871
CapitalKushima Castle
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1587
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofNagasaki Prefecture

Ōmura Domain (大村藩, Ōmura-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It is associated with Hizen Province in modern-day Saga Prefecture.[1]

In the han system, Ōmura was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[3] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

History[]

Ōmura was settled in ancient times, and was controlled by the since the 12th century. The Ōmura clan claimed descent from Fujiwara no Sumitomo (d. 941). , an 8th generation descendant from Fujiwara no Sumitomo, was the first to take the Ōmura name, from the location of his castle and estates. Among his descendants was Ōmura Sumitada (1532–1587), one of the Christian daimyō of Kyūshū. Sumitada opened the port of Nagasaki to the Portuguese and sponsored its development. Following Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign against the Shimazu clan, the Ōmura were confirmed in their holdings, though Nagasaki was taken from the Jesuits and made into a chokkatsu-ryō, or direct landholding, of the Toyotomi administration. His son, Ōmura Yoshiaki (1568–1615) sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara, but was forced to give up his domains to his son, (d. 1619). Sumiyori had been baptized like his father and grandfather, but with the promulgation of the edicts banning Christianity, he became an apostate and persecuted the Christians in his domain. The Ōmura thus gained the trust of the Tokugawa shogunate, and were confirmed in their holdings of 27,900 koku until the Meiji Restoration.

The final daimyō, Ōmura Sumihiro, was initially a strong supporter of the Tokugawa government, and was entrusted with the position of Nagasaki bugyō in 1862. However, he defected to the Sonnō jōi side in 1864, and joined with the Satchō Alliance in the Boshin War. In 1871, with the abolition of the han system, Ōmura domain became part of the new Nagasaki Prefecture.

His son, Ōmura Sumio was elevated to the rank of viscount (shishaku) in the kazoku peerage system in 1884, and further elevated to count (hakushaku) in 1891. However, as he had no son, he adopted his son-in-law, the son of to be his heir.

The former Ōmura domain is now part of Ōmura city, Nagasaki Prefecture.

List of daimyōs[]

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

  • , 1600–1868 (tozama; 28,000 koku)[4]
Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank
1 Ōmura Yoshiaki (大村喜前)[4] 1587–1616 Tangō-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下)
2 (大村純頼) 1616–1619 Minbu-daisuke Lower 5th (従五位下)
3 (大村純信) 1620–1651 Tangō-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下)
4 (大村純長) 1651–1706 Inaba-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下)
5 (大村純尹) 1706–1712 Chikugo-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下)
6 (大村純庸) 1712–1727 Ise-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下)
7 (大村純富) 1727–1748 Kawachi-no-kami Lower 5th (従五位下)
8 (大村純保) 1748–1761 Danjō-shōhitsu Lower 5th (従五位下)
9 (大村純鎮) 1761–1803 Shinano-no-kami　 Lower 5th (従五位下)
10 (大村純昌) 1803–1836 Tangō-no-kami　 Lower 5th (従五位下)
11 (大村純顕) 1835–1847 Tangō-no-kami　 Lower 5th (従五位下)
12 Ōmura Sumihiro (大村純熈) 1847–1871 Tangō-no-kami　 Lower 5th (従五位下)
XX Ōmura Sumio 大村純雄

See also[]

References[]

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. ^ "Hizen Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-5-28.
  2. ^ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  3. ^ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Ōmura" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 47; retrieved 2013-6-2.
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