Obama Domain
In the Sengoku period, the Wakasa Province was controlled by a number of local warlords, including a branch of the Takeda clan.Kinoshita did not participate in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and was deprived of Obama by the victorious Tokugawa Ieyasu because he had not actively supported the winning side.[3] Under the Kyōgoku clan, Obama was rebuilt into a jōkamachi and a center for the kitamaebune coastal trade network between Ezo and the Kansai region.[6] Tadakatsu was one of the shogunate's top officials who served on the rōjū council, and later as its head, or Tairō.He implemented a taxation system and installed town magistrates (machi-bugyō) and local governors.The Sakai clan continued to rule Obama for fourteen generations over 237 years to the end of the Edo period.Efforts were made to shore up the domain's finances and to relieve the peasant's suffering, but famine struck again several decades later in 1836.The twelfth Sakai daimyō, Sakai Tadaaki, also served as Kyoto Shoshidai and worked with Ii Naosuke to implement the Kōbu gattai between the shogunate and the Imperial Court and suppress the Mito rebellion led by Takeda Kōunsai and other pro-Sonnō jōi partisans in Kyoto.He retired in 1862, but returned to power under the new name Sakai Tadayoshi after the defeat of the shogunate in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in the 1868 Boshin War to lead the domain into the pro-imperial cause.He was appointed imperial governor of Wakasa under the new Meiji government, ruling until the abolition of the han system in 1871.Unlike most fudai domains in the han system that consisted of discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields,[7][8] Obama Domain controlled all of the province of Wakasa, and some scattered small holdings in neighbouring Echizen and Omi.He was proclaimed heir in 1649 when his elder brother, Sakai Tadatomo was disinherited for unknown reasons and exiled to a distant exclave of the domain in Awa Province.During his tenure, he continued the policies of his father in organizing the domain government and codifying its law, flood control, and new rice land development, as well as encouraging education and literature.He became daimyō in 1762 on the death of his father, and was awarded the courtesy title ofShuri-daiyu and Lower 5th, Junior grade court rank the following year.In 1792, he was ordered to bolster the defences of Nemuro after incursions by a French warship in violation of Japan's national isolation policy.Through fiscal reforms he was initially able to reduce this by 100,000 ryō, but the domain economy collapsed in 1833 due to crop failures.He re-assumed his position as daimyō at the start of the Boshin War (following the defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate forces at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi) and defected to the Imperial side.However, following the defeat of the Tokugawa during that battle, he was pushed aside by Tadaaki, who resumed the title of daimyō and who had the support of the senior domain retainers.
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