Nihonmatsu Domain
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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....
. For the majority of its history it was ruled by the Niwa clan
Niwa clan
The ' was a Japanese samurai clan which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period. Its members claimed descent from the medieval Kodama family. Famous clan members included Oda Nobunaga's senior retainer Niwa Nagahide, as well as Nagahide's 19th century descendants Niwa Nagatomi, Niwa Nagakuni, and...
. The Nihonmatsu domain also took part in the fighting of the Boshin War
Boshin War
The was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the imperial court....
, and was disbanded in 1871.
List of Daimyo
- Matsushita clan (30,000 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...
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- Shigetsuna
- Nagatsuna
- Katō clan (30,000 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...
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- Akitoshi
- Niwa clanNiwa clanThe ' was a Japanese samurai clan which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period. Its members claimed descent from the medieval Kodama family. Famous clan members included Oda Nobunaga's senior retainer Niwa Nagahide, as well as Nagahide's 19th century descendants Niwa Nagatomi, Niwa Nagakuni, and...
(100,700→57,000 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...
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- Mitsushige
- Nagatsugu
- Nagayuki
- Hidenobu
- Takahiro
- Takatsune
- Nagataka
- NagaakiNiwa Nagaaki' was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period who ruled Nihonmatsu han.-Biography:Nagaaki, first known by his childhood name of Nabetarō , was the eldest son of Niwa Nagataka, the preceding daimyo of Nihonmatsu. On June 17, 1796, he succeeded to family headship, following the death of his father...
- NagatomiNiwa Nagatomi' was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period.-Biography:Nagatomi, known in his childhood as Kakuzō and later Bankichi , was born in his family's Edo residence in 1803. He was the eldest son of the previous daimyo, Niwa Nagaaki...
- NagakuniNiwa NagakuniViscount ; was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period who ruled Nihonmatsu han and was famous for his leadership of the domain during the Boshin War.-Biography:...
- NagahiroNiwa NagahiroViscount ' was a Japanese daimyo of the early Meiji period who ruled Nihonmatsu han. The 9th son of Yonezawa lord Uesugi Narinori, he succeeded to the Nihonmatsu headship in 1868. Nihonmatsu had just lost in the Boshin War, and as one of the conditions for its surrender to the Imperial Japanese...