Okazaki Domain

Japanese: 岡崎藩 - おかざきはん

This was a fudai-chu domain with its government office (Okazaki Castle) in Okazaki, Nukata County, Mikawa Province (present-day Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture). After Tokugawa Ieyasu entered the Kanto region in 1590, Tanaka Yoshimasa was given 100,000 koku and expanded and improved Okazaki Castle. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1601, the Tanaka clan was transferred to Kurume in Chikugo, and Honda Yasushige was given 50,000 koku in his place. In 1634, he was given an additional 5,000 koku, and in 1645, during Toshinaga's reign, a total of 6,560 koku was divided between his half-brother and younger brother. In the same year, Toshinaga was transferred to Yokosuka in Totomi Province, and Mizuno Tadayoshi was given 50,000 koku. During Tadayoshi's reign, a general land survey was carried out in 1649, new fields were developed, and the military system was strengthened. In 1664, 5,000 koku was given to his younger brother Tadahisa for the new fields. In that year, the domain's territory consisted of 51 villages in Hekikai County, 72 villages in Nukata County, 38 villages in Kamo County, and 4 villages in Hazu County. In 1725, Tadayuki was granted an additional 10,000 koku. In 1762, Mizuno Tadatoshi was transferred to Karatsu, Hizen, and Matsudaira Yasufuku was given 50,400 koku, and in 1769 he was transferred to Hamada, Iwami. Honda Tadaku was given 50,000 koku in his place, and he served as the domain's lord until the abolition of the domains and establishment of prefectures in 1871. From the beginning of Tadatoshi's tenure, the domain's finances were in dire straits, and in addition to borrowing from within the family, the domain requested financial assistance and a transfer of its territory from the shogunate. During the Kansei period (1789-1801), the chief retainer Nakane Hayato and others carried out financial reforms with the cooperation of Edo merchants, and the crisis was temporarily averted. However, during the Tenpo period (1830-1844) the domain fell into poverty again, and from the Ansei period (1854-1860) onwards, attempts were made to restore its finances with the assistance of influential peasant classes under the leadership of the feudal lord Loyalist.
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Japanese:

三河国額田(ぬかた)郡岡崎（現愛知県岡崎市）に政庁（岡崎城）を置いた譜代中藩。1590年の徳川家康関東入国後，田中吉政が10万石で入封し，岡崎城の拡張・整備を行った。関ヶ原の戦後の1601年に田中氏は筑後久留米に転封となり，代わって本多康重が５万石で入封。1634年には５千石を加増され，1645年利長の時に庶兄と弟に計6560石を分知した。同年利長は遠江横須賀に転封となり，水野忠善が５万石で入封。忠善の時代には1649年の総検地実施，新田の開発，軍制の強化などが推進された。1664年には弟忠久に新田分５千石を分与。同年の藩領は碧海(へきかい)郡51ヵ村・額田郡72ヵ村・加茂郡38ヵ村・幡豆(はず)郡４ヵ村であった。1725年忠之の時１万石を加増された。1762年水野忠任は肥前唐津に転封となり，松平康福が５万400石で入封，1769年には石見浜田へ移された。代わって本多忠粛が５万石で入封，以後同氏を藩主として1871年の廃藩置県に至った。忠粛入封当初から藩財政は窮乏し，家中からの借知を行うほか幕府へ財政援助や所替を願い出た。寛政期（1789年−1801年）には家老中根隼人らにより，江戸商人の協力を得て財政改革が行われ，いったんは危機を回避した。だが天保期（1830年−1844年）には再び窮乏し，安政期（1854年−1860年）からは藩主忠民のもとで有力農民層の援助を得て財政立直しが試みられている。
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