Hamada Domain

This domain was located in Hamada, Naka County, Iwami Province (Hamada City, Shimane Prefecture). It was a medium-sized domain with frequent changes of lords, beginning with an outside daimyo, then a fudai clan, and finally a related clan at the end of the Edo period. Since the Mori clan was reduced to only two provinces, Bungo and Choshu, in 1600 (Keicho 5), this area was under direct control of the Tokugawa, but in 1619 (Genwa 5), ​​the outside daimyo Furuta Shigeharu (55,000 koku), lord of Ise Matsusaka Domain, was transferred to Iwami 50,000 koku and Tamba 5,000 koku, and entered Hamada, where he built Hamada Castle and constructed a castle town. His nephew Shigetsune succeeded him, but the line died out without an heir. In 1649 (Keian 2), Matsudaira (Matsui) Yasuteru, a fudai daimyo and lord of the Harima Shisō domain (with a fief of over 54,000 koku), was transferred to Hamada, and in 1759 (Horeki 9), Honda Tadahisa, lord of the Shimousa Koga domain (with a fief of 50,000 koku), was also transferred to Hamada. In 1769 (Meiwa 6), the previous lord Matsudaira (Matsui) Yasuyoshi became lord of Hamada domain again, and in 1785 (Tenmei 5), his fief was increased by over 10,000 koku to 61,000 koku. In 1836 (Tenpo 7), Matsudaira Nariatsu (Takeatsu), lord of the Kozuke Tatebayashi domain, was assigned to the Hamada domain. When the Choshu army attacked in 1866 (Keio 2), the lord of the domain, Matsudaira Takeakira, abandoned the castle and fled to Tazuta in Mimasaka Province, which was an exclave of the Hamada domain. Hamada was occupied by the Choshu army and abolished as a domain. In 1869 (Meiji 2), the former domain territory, together with the neighboring shogunate territory and Oki, became Omori Prefecture (later Hamada Prefecture).

The domain was plagued by many incidents, including the "Harusadameyosha Petition Disturbance" in 1716 (Kyoho 1), a peasant uprising; the "Kagamiyama Incident" in 1724, an internal conflict among ladies-in-waiting (deliberately adapted into the kabuki play "Kagamiyama Kokyo no Nishikie"); the "Hamada Religious Debate" between Jodo Shinshu and other sects from 1762 (Horeki 12) to 1767 (Meiwa 4); and the "Aizu Hachiemon Incident" in 1836 (Tenpo 7), which involved smuggling. However, the domain also focused on promoting industry, including the development of Iwami paper, as well as iron, wax, roofing tiles, and seafood, and the port of Sotoura (Hamada Port) became a bustling port on the Nishimawari shipping route.

[Matsuo Hisashi]

"Hamada City Chronicle, 2 volumes (1973, Hamada City)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

石見(いわみ)国那賀(なか)郡浜田（島根県浜田市）に置かれた藩。外様(とざま)大名に始まり、譜代(ふだい)藩を経て幕末には親藩が配された領主交替の激しい中規模の藩である。1600年（慶長5）毛利(もうり)氏が防長2か国に減封されて以来、この地は徳川直轄地であったが、19年（元和5）外様大名の伊勢(いせ)松坂藩主古田重治(しげはる)（5万5000石）が石見5万石・丹波(たんば)5000石に所替(ところがえ)となり浜田へ入部、浜田城を築き城下町を建設した。甥(おい)重恒(しげつね)が後を継いだが嗣子(しし)なく断絶。1649年（慶安2）譜代大名の播磨宍粟(はりましそう)藩主松平（松井）康映(やすてる)（5万4000石余）が浜田へ転封、1759年（宝暦9）には下総(しもうさ)古河(こが)藩主本多忠敞(ほんだただひさ)（5万石）が浜田へ転封、69年（明和6）には前藩主松平（松井）康福(やすよし)がふたたび浜田藩主となり、85年（天明5）には1万石余が加増されて6万1000石、1836年（天保7）今度は家門(かもん)である上野(こうずけ)館林(たてばやし)藩主松平斉厚(なりあつ)（武厚）が浜田藩へ配された。1866年（慶応2）長州軍の攻撃を受けると、藩主松平武聡(たけあきら)は城を放棄、浜田藩の飛地(とびち)領である美作(みまさか)国鶴田(たづた)へ逃れ、浜田は長州軍に占領されて廃藩、69年（明治2）に旧藩領は隣接の幕府領および隠岐(おき)とあわせて大森県（のち浜田県）となった。

　1716年（享保1）には農民が蜂起(ほうき)した「春定用捨(はるさだめようしゃ)訴願騒動」、1724年には奥女中から起こった内紛「鏡山(かがみやま)事件」（歌舞伎(かぶき)『加賀見山旧錦絵(かがみやまこきょうのにしきえ)』に脚色）、1762年（宝暦12）より67年（明和4）にかけては浄土真宗対他宗の「浜田宗論」、1836年（天保7）には密貿易「会津八右衛門(はちえもん)事件」など、とかく事件の多い藩であったが、石見半紙の開発をはじめ鉄、蝋(ろう)、瓦(かわら)、海産物など殖産興業に力を入れ、外の浦港（浜田港）は西廻(まわり)航路の寄港地としてにぎわった。

［松尾　寿］

『『浜田市誌』全2巻（1973・浜田市）』

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