Kurohane Domain
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The was a Japanese domain
of the Edo Period
, located in Shimotsuke Province
(modern-day Ōtawara, Tochigi
). It was ruled for the entirety of its history by the Ōseki clan.
Han (Japan)
The or domain was the name of the estate belonging to a warrior in Japan after the 17th century. The fiefs of the daimyos of the samurai class of Japan during the Edo period were called han.-Edo period:...
of the Edo Period
Edo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
, located in Shimotsuke Province
Shimotsuke Province
is an old province of Japan in the area of Tochigi Prefecture in the Kanto region. It was sometimes called or .The ancient capital of the province was near the city of Tochigi, but in feudal times the main center of the province was near the modern capital, Utsunomiya.-History:Different parts of...
(modern-day Ōtawara, Tochigi
Otawara, Tochigi
is a city located in eastern Tochigi Prefecture, Japan which is in the northern part of the Kantō region north of Tokyo. Otawara is approximately 40 kilometers north of Utsunomiya, the capital of Tochigi, and approximately 50 km east of the historic city of Nikkō...
). It was ruled for the entirety of its history by the Ōseki clan.
List of lords
- Ōseki clan (TozamaTozamaA ' was a daimyo who was considered an outsider by the rulers of Japan. The term came into use in the Kamakura period and continued until the end of the Edo period.-Edo period:...
; 20,000->18,000 kokuKokuThe is a Japanese unit of volume, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres. The koku was originally defined as a quantity of rice, historically defined as enough rice to feed one person for one year...
)
- Sukemasu
- Masamasu
- Takamasu
- Chikamasu
- Masunaga
- Masutsune
- Masuoki
- Masutomo
- Masusuke
- Masuharu
- Masunari
- Masunori
- Masuakira
- Masuyoshi
- Masuhiro
- MasunoriOseki MasunoriViscount was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who served as daimyo of the Kurohane Domain . Succeeded to family headship in 1868, amidst the turmoil of the Boshin War...