Karatsu Castle

The Karatsu Domain (唐津藩, Karatsu-han^?) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Hizen Province, in Kyūshū. 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 Hizen (肥前国 Hizen no kuni was an old province of Japan which bordered on Chikuzen and Chikugo. or Kyushu is the third-largest Island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its seat of government was in Karatsu Castle, in modern-day Karatsu, Saga. is a Castle in the City of Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Terasawa Hirotaka, a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi is a city located in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, Japan.

History

The Karatsu domain was founded in 1593, by Terazawa Hirotaka, who was granted lordship of Karatsu and a landholding of 83,000 koku. ( 1563 - May 18, 1633) was a Japanese Daimyo of the early Edo period. KOKU (1003 FM, "Hit Radio 100" is a Radio station in the United States territory of Guam. He was also made bugyō of Nagasaki. often translated as "commissioner" or "magistrate" or "governor" was a title assigned to government officers in pre-modern Japan other terms would be added The Terazawa clan took part in the Battle of Sekigahara, and received 40,000 more koku of land, bringing the size of the domain up to 123,000 koku. Background and pretext Even though Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan and consolidated his power following the Siege of Odawara in 1590 his ill-fated KOKU (1003 FM, "Hit Radio 100" is a Radio station in the United States territory of Guam. KOKU (1003 FM, "Hit Radio 100" is a Radio station in the United States territory of Guam. The Terazawa also took part in the shogunate's expedition to suppress the Shimabara Uprising. The was an uprising largely involving Japanese Peasants, most of them Christians, in 1637–1638 during the Edo period. The family held on to Karatsu until 1647, when Hirotaka's son Katataka committed suicide; due to a lack of heir, the family came to an end and the domain was confiscated by the Tokugawa shogunate. The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the, and the, was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the Shoguns of

Several families were rotated through Karatsu for the next century: two generations of the Ōkubo clan; three generations of the Ogyū-Matsudaira clan, four generations of the Doi clan, and four of the Mizuno clan, including the famous reformer Mizuno Tadakuni. The were a Samurai kin group which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period and the Edo period. The was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Minamoto clan. The was a Japanese clan which claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan. ( July 19, 1794 - March 12, 1851) was a Japanese Daimyo of the late Edo period who ruled the Karatsu and then Hamamatsu Domains The domain then passed into the hands of Ogasawara Nagamasa^[1], whose family remained there until the Karatsu domain was abolished in 1871. During the Boshin War of 1868-69, Ogasawara Nagamichi, the de facto ruler of Karatsu, led a group of his retainers on the side of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei; after the fall of this alliance he went to Ezo and fought under the forces of the Ezo Republic. ( June 29, 1822 - January 25, 1891, also known as "Tosho-no-kami" (by 1862 and "Iki-no-kami (by 1865 was a Japanese Samurai The Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei or was a Japanese military-political coalition established and disestablished over the course of several months in early to mid-1868 during the Boshin War EZO is the American self-titled debut album from the Japanese Metal band Ezo. Background After the defeat of the forces of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Boshin War (1868&ndash1869 of the Meiji Restoration, a part of the At the same time, Karatsu's domain-based administration was forced to pledge military support to the Imperial Japanese Army. The Imperial Japanese Army ( IJA) ( Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國陸軍 Shinjitai: ja 大日本帝国陸軍 Romaji: Dai-Nippon Teikoku

Ogasawara Naganari, the Meiji-era admiral, was a descendant of the Ogasawara branch which ruled Karatsu. Viscount ( December 15, 1867 - September 20, 1958) was an Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Meiji period

List of lords

Ogasawara Nagamichi, the last de facto ruler of Karatsu

• Terazawa clan, 1593-1647 (Tozama; 83,000->123,000 koku)^[2]

• Ōkubo clan 1649-1678 (Fudai; 83,000 koku)^[3]

• Matsudaira (Ogyū) clan 1678-1691 (Fudai; 70,000->60,000 koku)^[4]

• Doi clan 1691-1762 (Fudai; 70,000 koku)^[5]

• Mizuno clan 1762-1817 (Fudai; 60,000 koku)^[6]

• Ogasawara clan 1817-1871 (Fudai; 60,000 koku)^[7]

References

• (Japanese) Karatsu domain on "Edo 300 HTML" (9 Oct. 2007)
• Bolitho, Harold (1974). Treasures among Men. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Rein, Johannes (1884). Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government. New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son.