The Hotta clan (堀田氏 Hotta-shi?) was a Japanese clan that ruled the Sakura Domain in the late Edo period. Sakura han (佐倉藩 was a Japanese feudal domain located in Shimousa Province (present-day northern Chiba Prefecture) The, also referred to as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa-jidai) is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1868