Kōfu Domain

Reconstructed gate at Kōfu Castle, the headquarters of Kōfu Domain

Kōfu Domain (甲府藩 Kōfu-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The domain was centered at Kōfu Castle what is now the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi.^[1]

History

Kai Province was initially entrusted to important Tokugawa clan members as Kōfu Domain, and later to the highly placed fudai daimyo Yanagisawa clan, with periods of direct shogunal rule ( tenryō ) in between. Following the transfer of Yanagisawa Yoshisato to Yamato Province in 1724, the domain remained under direct shogunal control until the Meiji Restoration.^[2]

With the abolition of the han system in July 1871, Kōfu Domain became “Kōfu Prefecture”, which subsequently was renamed Yamanashi Prefecture.

List of daimyo

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	kokudaka	Notes
Tokugawa clan, 1603-1704 (shinpan) [1]
1	Tokugawa Yoshinao (徳川義直)	1603–1607	Uhōe-no-kami (右兵衛督)	Lower 4th (従四位下)	250,000 koku	9th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu
2	Tokugawa Tadanaga (徳川忠長)	1618–1624	Gon-Chūnagon (権中納言)	Third (従三位)	238,000 koku	3rd son of Tokugawa Hidetada
3	Tokugawa Tsunashige (徳川綱重)	1661–1678	Sangi (参議)	3rd (従三位)	250,000->350,000 koku	3rd son of Tokugawa Iemitsu
4	Tokugawa Tsunatoyo (徳川綱豊)	1678–1704	Gon-Chūnagon (権中納言)	3rd (従三位)	350,000 koku	1st son of Tokugawa Tsunashige became 6th Shogun, Tokugawa Ienobu
Yanagisawa clan, 1704-1724 (fudai)[3]
1	Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (柳沢吉保)[3]	1704–1709	Mino-no-kami (美濃守); Sakonoe-shoshō (左権少将)	Lower 4th (従四位下)	150,000 koku	transfer from Kawagoe Domain
2	Yanagisawa Yoshisato (柳沢吉里)[3]	1709–1724	Kai-no-kami(甲斐守) Jijū (侍従)	3rd (従三位)	150,000 koku	1st son of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu transferred to Yamato-Kōriyama Domain
Tokugawa clan, 1724-1871(tenryō) [1]

See also

• List of Han

References

• Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.

External links

• "Kōfu" at Edo 300 (Japanese)

Notes

1. "Kai Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-7-8.
2. Kofu-han at Edo-300
3. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Yanagisawa" at Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 70-71; retrieved 2013-7-8.