Kokura Domain

A clan whose head office was located in Kokura, Kiku County, Buzen Province (Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture). The lord of the clan was the Ogasawara clan. It was a Fudai clan. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi subjugated Kyushu, Mori Katsunobu was given 60,000 koku and moved to Kokura, but in 1600 (Keicho 5), he belonged to the Western Army at the Battle of Sekigahara and was captured by Kuroda Yoshitaka of Nakatsu. After the war, Hosokawa Tadaoki was given one province of Buzen and two counties, Kunisaki and Hayami, in Bungo Province (Oita Prefecture), and moved to Nakatsu. In 1602, he built a castle in Kokura and moved there. The Hosokawa clan was in the fief for two generations, Tadaoki and Tadatoshi, and moved to Higo Kumamoto in 1632 (Kan'ei 9). After this, Ogasawara Tadazane of Akashi, Harima Province (Hyogo Prefecture) was granted 150,000 koku in six districts, Kiku, Tagawa, Kyoto, Tsuiki, Nakatsu, and Jomo, and moved to Kokura. This was intended to place the Ogasawara clan, which boasted a lineage of military achievements, in Toyonaka, a key location in Kyushu, to monitor the powerful Tozama daimyo in Kyushu, and for this reason the Ogasawara clan came to be known as the Kyushu Tandai of the Edo Shogunate. After Tadamasa, there were 10 generations of Tadao, Tadamoto, Tadafusa, Tadamitsu, Tadakata, Tadaakira, Tadahiro, Tadatoshi and Tadanobu, but in 1866 (Keio 2) during the Second Choshu Expedition, the domain was attacked by the Choshu clan, Kokura Castle was burned down, and the domain moved to Kawara in Tagawa County, where it was called the Kawara Domain. In January of the following year, Kikyu County was handed over to the Choshu clan and a peace treaty was made. After the Meiji Restoration in 1870 (Meiji 3), the domain headquarters was moved to Toyots (Miyako Town) in Kyoto County, where it was called Toyots. In July of the following year, 1871, the domain was abolished and Toyots Prefecture was established, before becoming Kokura Prefecture in November of the same year, and in 1876 it was merged into Fukuoka Prefecture.

[Kazuo Shibata]

"New Narrative History of the Domain, Volume 11" (1975, Shinjinbutsu Oraisha)

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豊前(ぶぜん)国企救(きく)郡小倉（福岡県北九州市）に藩庁を置いた藩。藩主小笠原(おがさわら)氏。譜代(ふだい)。豊臣(とよとみ)秀吉の九州平定後、毛利勝信(もうりかつのぶ)が6万石を与えられて小倉に入ったが、1600年（慶長5）関ヶ原の戦いのとき西軍に属し、中津の黒田孝高(よしたか)に攻め落とされた。戦後、細川忠興(ただおき)が豊前(ぶぜん)1国、豊後(ぶんご)国（大分県）国東(くにさき)、速見(はやみ)2郡を与えられて中津に入り、1602年小倉に城を築いてここに移った。細川氏は忠興、忠利の2代在封し、1632年（寛永9）肥後熊本に移った。このあと播磨(はりま)国（兵庫県）明石(あかし)の小笠原忠真(ただざね)が企救、田川、京都(みやこ)、築城(ついき)、仲津、上毛(こうげ)6郡に15万石を与えられて小倉に入った。これは九州の枢要の地豊前に武功の家柄を誇る小笠原氏を配して、九州の有力外様(とざま)大名の監視役にしようとしたもので、このため小笠原氏は江戸幕府の九州探題と称された。忠真のあと忠雄、忠基、忠総(ただふさ)、忠苗(ただみつ)、忠固(ただかた)、忠徴(ただあきら)、忠嘉(ただひろ)、忠幹(ただとし)、忠忱(ただのぶ)と10代続いたが、1866年（慶応2）第二次長州征伐のとき長州藩に攻められて小倉城を自焼、田川郡香春(かわら)に移って香春藩と称した。翌年1月企救郡を長州藩に預けて講和。維新後の1870年（明治3）藩庁を京都郡豊津(とよつ)（みやこ町）に移し豊津藩と称した。翌1871年7月廃藩、豊津県を経て、同年11月小倉県となり、1876年福岡県に統合された。

［柴多一雄］

『『新編物語藩史　第11巻』（1975・新人物往来社）』

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