Kishū Domain

Kishū (Japanese纪 州 藩, -han ) was a Han ( fief ) in Japan in the Edo period, which existed from 1586 to 1869. It is named after the old province Kii ( Kishū ), in which it lay, now called the Wakayama Prefecture and the southern part of Mie Prefecture, and the castle town of Wakayama as Kii Wakayama, or only as Kii or just as Wakayama. The income of the Han was assessed at 555,000 koku.

The daimyo ( feudal lords ) of Kishū was first put the family Kuwayama (桑 山), at that time measured the fief of only 20,000 koku. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1601 joined the feud, however, in the hands of the Asano (浅 野) and was massively enlarged to 376,000 koku.

1619 Finally, the fief to Tokugawa Yorinobu, the tenth son of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and originally lord of Sumpu in the province of Suruga was given. This was his line to the Kishū - Tokugawa, one of the three original extension lines of the Tokugawa, the so-called Gosanke. As a relative of the shogun Tokugawa Kishū - were at the highest rank of the Shimpan - daimyo. The fifth in line, Yoshimune, was adopted in 1716 the parent company and even Shogun, because the main line could produce an heir. New lord was then Yoriyoshi Matsudaira (松 平 頼 致), lord of Saijō in the province of Iyo, who took the name Tokugawa Munenao.

As well as the new main line of the Tokugawa became extinct with the childless Tokugawa Iesada, 1849 was a legacy from the Kishū line was used again, Tokugawa Yoshitomi, who took the name Iemochi.

List of daimyo

• Kuwayama ( tozama - daimyo, 30,000 Koku → 20,000 koku ), 1586-1601

• Asano ( tozama - daimyo, 376,000 koku ), 1600-1619

• Kishū - Tokugawa ( Shimpan - daimyo, 555,000 koku ), 1619-1869

• Han
• Wakayama Prefecture