Funai Domain

Bridge at Funai Castle, seat of the Funai Domain

Funai Domain (府内藩, Funai-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It is associated with Bungo Province in present-day Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.

In the han system, Funai was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.^[1] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.^[2] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

History[]

Funai had been the castle of the Ōtomo clan; however, Toyotomi Hideyoshi confiscated it during the lordship of Ōtomo Yoshimune. In 1601, , the cousin of Takenaka Shigeharu (Hanbei), received Funai Castle, and land rated at 20,000 koku; he had switched sides during the Sekigahara Campaign to support Tokugawa Ieyasu. The domain was then given to in 1634; however, as he died heirless, the domain was given to the Matsudaira (Ogyū) clan. The Matsudaira clan remained daimyōs of Funai until the Meiji Restoration.

List of daimyōs[]

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

• Takenaka clan, 1601–1634 (tozama; 20,000 koku)

1. Shigetoshi (cousin of Takenaka Hanbei)
2. Shigeyoshi

• Hineno clan, 1634–1656 (tozama; 20,000 koku)

1. Yoshiakira

• Matsudaira (Ogyū) clan, 1656–1871 (Fudai; 21,000 koku)

1. Tadaaki
2. Chikanobu
3. Chikayoshi
4. Chikasada
5. Chikanori
6. Chikatomo
7. Chikayoshi
8. Chikakuni
9. Chikanobu
10. Chikayoshi

See also[]

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system

References[]

Map of Japan, 1789 – the Han system affected cartography

External links[]

• (in Japanese) Funai Domain on "Edo 300 HTML" (16 Sept. 2007)
• (in Japanese) Pictures of the remains of Funai Castle

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