Takato Domain - Takato Ohan

A clan that ruled over the Takato region of Shinano Province (Nagano Prefecture). After the Oda clan attacked Takato Castle (1582), the Hoshina clan, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu and entered Takato Castle, moved to Tako in Shimousa (Chiba Prefecture) when Ieyasu was transferred to the Kanto region. Ten years later, in 1600 (Keicho 5), they again ruled over the Takato domain with 25,000 koku of rice. In 1615 (Genwa 1), they were granted an additional 5,000 koku of rice in the Matsumoto Daira Seba region. Masayuki, the younger brother of Tokugawa Iemitsu and adopted son of Hoshina Masamitsu, was transferred to Dewa Yamagata Castle in 1636 (Kan'ei 13) with a fief of 200,000 koku. In exchange, Torii Tadatsune's younger brother Tadaharu, who was stripped of his fief of 220,000 koku in Yamagata due to lack of an heir, moved to Takato with a new fief of 30,000 koku. However, as it was a small domain, it was poor financially and as a result of harsh governance, 3,000 farmers in the domain fled in 1654 (Shoo 3). During the next lord, Tadanori, the domain was confined to his own domain for suspicious behavior by his retainers, and he died shortly thereafter, and the Takato domain became the domain of the shogunate (his son, Tadanori, was transferred to Shimomura, Noto with 10,000 koku). In 1690 (Genroku 3), a land survey was carried out for the entire domain under the Tenryo administration of the Matsumoto domain, and the land surveyed at this time was strict, and the 6,000 koku or more that was surveyed was incorporated into the Shogunate's territory. The following year, Naito Kiyokazu, who had held 33,000 koku in Settsu, Kawachi, and other areas, entered the domain and held 33,000 koku, and after eight generations, the domain continued to exist until the Meiji Restoration. The Naito clan, a small Fudai domain, also had financial difficulties, and as sung about in the song "Inabushi," the seized rice from within the domain was sent to the Kiso Valley through the domain's tax levy. In the Bunsei period (1818-1830), the entire domain faced an uprising called the "Waraji Soro" ("Waraji Uprising"); however, the financial reforms carried out by the wealthy farmers during the Bunsei and Tenpo periods (1818-1844) helped the domain avoid the threat of ruin. The Takato Domain School, which was run by Tenzan Sakamoto, was revived by the appointment of Chuso Nakamura (Mototsune), and talented people were produced from the domain school Shintokukan run by his son Genki Nakamura. Ejima, a maid in the Ooku, was exiled in 1714 (4th year of the Shōtoku era).

[Sadayuki Horiguchi]

"Early Modern Ina Takato" by Masato Kitahara (1977, Ina Mainichi Shimbunsha)" ▽ "Chronology of Takato Domain" by Masatsugu Hasegawa (1980, Aoyamasha)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

信濃(しなの)国（長野県）高遠地方を領有した藩。織田氏の高遠城攻め（1582）のあと、徳川家康に属して高遠城へ入った保科(ほしな)氏は、家康の関東転封とともに下総(しもうさ)（千葉県）多古(たこ)に移り、10年後の1600年（慶長5）ふたたび高遠藩2万5000石を領有。15年（元和1）松本平洗馬(まつもとだいらせば)地方5000石が加増された。徳川家光(いえみつ)の弟で、保科正光の養子となった正之(まさゆき)は1636年（寛永13）出羽(でわ)山形20万石の城主となって転封、かわって山形22万石を無嗣(むし)除封となった鳥居忠恒(とりいただつね)の弟忠春が新封3万石で高遠へ入った。しかし小藩ゆえ財政は窮乏し苛政(かせい)の結果、1654年（承応3）には領内農民3000人が逃亡した。次代忠則のとき家臣の不審な行為を理由に閉門となり、忠則もまもなく死去、高遠領は幕領となった（その子忠英(ただてる)は能登(のと)下村1万石に転出）。松本藩預りの天領治政で竿(さお)入れされた1690年（元禄3）の全藩検地は厳しく、このとき打ち出された6000余石は幕府領に編入された。翌年、摂津・河内(かわち)ほかで3万3000石を領していた内藤清枚(きよかず)が入って3万3000石を領有し、以後8代を経て、明治維新に至る。譜代(ふだい)小藩内藤氏も財政苦しく、藩内の収奪米は、『伊那節(いなぶし)』に歌われるごとく、木曽(きそ)谷に領内の仕送役を通じて送られ、文政(ぶんせい)期（1818～30）わらじ騒動の全藩一揆(いっき)に直面するが、豪農層による文政・天保(てんぽう)（1818～44）の財政改革により破滅の危機を逃れた。坂本天山によった高遠藩学は中村中倧(ちゅうそう)（元恒(もとつね)）の登用により復興し、その子中村元起(げんき)による藩校進徳館より逸材が輩出した。大奥女中絵島の配流は1714年（正徳4）のことである。

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