Matsue Domain

This clan was located in Matsue, Shimane County, Izumo Province (Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture), and is also called the Izumo (Unshu) clan. In the very beginning, it was a medium-sized outside clan, but after 1638 (Kan'ei 15), it became a family clan. In 1600 (Keicho 5), the Mori clan was reduced to only two provinces, Bungo and Choshu, and left Izumo. Horio Yoshiharu, the lord of Hamamatsu Domain in Totomi, was appointed as the lord of Izumo and Oki Provinces with a fief of 240,000 koku. He settled in Toda Castle (Gassan Castle) in Nogi County, the former castle of the Sengoku daimyo Amago clan, but he eventually built a new castle on Kamedayama in Hokki District, Shimane County, and built a castle town there, and moved to this place in 1611. This new city came to be called "Matsue" at this time. The Horio clan continued for three generations, but in 1633 (Kan'ei 10), when Tadaharu died without an heir, the clan died out. The following year, Kyogoku Tadataka, the lord of Wakasa Obama, moved to Matsue and ruled over the two provinces of Izumo and Oki, but died of illness in 1637, and the Kyogoku clan was temporarily stripped of its fief. The following year, the daimyo Matsudaira Naomasa (Echizen clan), a relative of the Tokugawa clan, moved from Matsumoto in Shinano to Matsue. After him, Tsunataka, Tsunachika, Yoshito, Nobusumi, Munenobu, Harusato, Naritu, Naritsune, Naritaka, and Sadayasu continued to rule the Tokugawa clan until the Meiji era.

The official title of the territory of Izumo was 186,000 koku, but according to the Kanbun Shuintome, the actual title in 1664 (Kanbun 4) was 500 villages and 280,000 koku. When Tsunataka, the eldest son, succeeded to the fief in 1666, he gave his second son Chikayoshi 30,000 koku of Hirose and his third son Takamasa 10,000 koku of Kanbe (Mori), and these three families continued to rule Izumo until the abolition of the feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures. In addition to the rule of Izumo, the Shogunate territory of Oki was entrusted to the Matsue Domain until the end of the Edo period, except for the period from 1688 (Genroku 1) to 1720 (Kyoho 5). In the early days of the domain's administration, local official Kishizaki Sakuji built the foundations for the domain's local rule, and in the middle period, middle elder Odagiri Bitchu Hisatari carried out the "Enkyo Reforms", followed by chief retainer Asahi Tanba Shigeyasu who carried out the "Otateha Reforms". The seventh domain lord, Harusato, was known as a wise ruler who restored the domain, and was known as a tea master under the pen name Fumai. In 1868 (Keio 4) during the final days of the Tokugawa shogunate, 3,000 farmers rallied in Oki, which was a domain's territory, and the "Oki Disturbance" occurred, in which the district governor and other domain officials were forced to leave. In 1871 (Meiji 4), the domain was abolished and prefectures were established, and the domain's territory became Matsue Prefecture, and then Shimane Prefecture.

[Matsuo Hisashi]

"Shimane Prefecture History Vol. 8 and 9" (1930, Shimane Prefecture / Reprint edition, 1972, Meishu Publishing)" ▽ "Newly Revised Shimane Prefecture History General Edition" (1968, Shimane Prefecture) ▽ "Matsue City Chronicle by Ueno Tomitaro and Nozu Seiichiro (1941, Matsue City / Reprint edition, 1973, Meishu Publishing)" ▽ "Newly Revised Matsue City Chronicle" (1962, Matsue City)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

出雲(いずも)国島根郡松江（島根県松江市）に置かれた藩で出雲（雲州(うんしゅう)）藩ともいう。ごく初期は中規模の外様(とざま)藩であったが、1638年（寛永15）以後は家門(かもん)中藩。1600年（慶長5）毛利(もうり)氏が防長2か国に減封されて出雲からも去り、遠江(とおとうみ)浜松藩主堀尾吉晴(ほりおよしはる)が出雲・隠岐(おき)2か国24万石の領主として入封、戦国大名尼子(あまご)氏の旧城能義(のぎ)郡富田(とだ)城（月山(がっさん)城）に居を定めたが、やがて島根郡法吉(ほっき)郷亀田(かめだ)山に新城を築き城下町を建設、1611年この地へ移った。この新都市はこのころ「松江」とよばれるようになった。堀尾氏は3代続いたが、1633年（寛永10）忠晴(ただはる)が死ぬと嗣子(しし)なく断絶、翌年若狭小浜(わかさおばま)藩主京極忠高(きょうごくただたか)が松江に移って出雲・隠岐(おき)2か国を支配したが、1637年に病死、京極氏はいったん除封された。かわって翌年親藩大名松平直政(なおまさ)（越前(えちぜん)家）が信濃(しなの)松本から松江に移り、以後、綱隆(つなたか)、綱近(つなちか)、吉透(よしとう)、宣維(のぶすみ)、宗衍(むねのぶ)、治郷(はるさと)、斉恒(なりつね)、斉貴(なりたか)、定安(さだやす)と続き明治に至った。

　領地は出雲一国で公称18万6000石であったが、『寛文朱印留(かんぶんしゅいんとめ)』によれば1664年（寛文4）の実高は500か村28万石余となっている。1666年長男綱隆が襲封したとき、二男近栄(ちかよし)に広瀬3万石、三男隆政(たかまさ)に神戸(かんべ)（母里(もり)）1万石を分与し、この3家は出雲国内で廃藩置県まで続いた。出雲一国の支配とは別に幕領の隠岐一国が1688年（元禄1）から1720年（享保5）までの間を除き幕末まで松江藩に預けられた。藩政初期には地方役(じかたやく)岸崎左久治(さきゅうじ)が藩の地方支配の基礎を築き、中期には中老小田切備中尚足(おだぎりびっちゅうひさたり)が「延享(えんきょう)の改革」を、ついで家老朝日丹波茂保(あさひたんばしげやす)が「御立派(おたては)の改革」を行っている。7代藩主治郷は中興の名君と称され、不昧(ふまい)と号し茶人として知られる。幕末の1868年（慶応4）には藩預地である隠岐で農民3000人が結集し、郡代以下藩役人が退去させられるという「隠岐騒動」が起こっている。1871年（明治4）廃藩置県により藩領は松江県となり、さらに島根県となった。

［松尾　寿］

『『島根県史　8・9』（1930・島根県／復刻版・1972・名著出版）』▽『『新修島根県史　通史編』（1968・島根県）』▽『上野富太郎・野津静一郎著『松江市誌』（1941・松江市／復刻版・1973・名著出版）』▽『『新修松江市誌』（1962・松江市）』

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