was a fudai feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It was located in Mino Province, in central Honshū. The domain was centered at Takatomi jin'ya, located in what is now the city of Yamagata in Gifu Prefecture.
History Takatomi Domain was created by Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi for Honjō Michiaki, the grandson of Honjō Michimasa, who was step-brother to his birth-mother Keishōin in 1705. It was originally called .
The domain had an assigned kokudaka of 10,000 koku. The jin’ya was transferred to Takatomi in 1709. Honjō Michimasa did not reside in the domain, but remained mostly in Edo Castle. Although his domain was very small, Honjō Michimasa and his successors were assigned many tasks pertaining to placating the kuge nobility in Kyoto, and the domain's revenues were not commensurate with this task. As a result, by the time of the 8th daimyō the domain was very deeply in debt. The 9th daimyō, Honjō Michitsura, attempted fiscal reforms, including fiscal frugality, planting of forests for harvestable wood, issuance of paper money and increases taxes on his peasantry. He also hired a rice merchant from Kyoto as financial advisor; however none of these measures worked, and in 1868 the domain defaulted on all of its debts, and its peasants rose in revolt. At the time, the domain was 207,400 ryō in debt.
In 1869, the final daimyō, Honjō Michiyoshi, was appointed domain governor under the new Meiji government until the abolition of the han system in 1871. In 1872, the domain became part of Gifu Prefecture.
Bakumatsu period holdings As with most domains in the han system, Takatomi Domain consisted of a discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
Mino Province 2 villages in Kakami District 7 villages in Katagata District 4 villages in Yamagata District Shimotsuke Province 6 villages in Yanada District
List of daimyōs Honjō clan (fudai) 1664–1871
Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka11705–1725Kunai-shoyu (宮内少輔) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku21725–1745Yamato-no-kami (大和守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku31745–1756 Izumi-no-kami (和泉守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku41756–1760Yamato-no-kami (大和守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku51760–1767Yamato-no-kami (大和守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku61767–1771Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku71771–1801Kai-no-kami (甲斐守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku81801–1819Shikibu-shoyu (式部少輔) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku91819–1858Ise-no-kami (伊勢守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku101858–1871Kunai-shōyu (宮内少輔) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) 10,000 koku
References The content of this article was largely derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.
External links Takatomi on "Edo 300 HTML"]