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was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan.,〔Jansen, Marius B. (1994). (''Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration,'' p. 401 ).〕 based at Iwakitaira Castle in southern Mutsu Province in what is now part of modern-day Iwaki, Fukushima. Its southern neighbor was the Mito Domain which was ruled by the Mito Tokugawa clan, it played the same role of the Iwakitaira Domain is guarding against the powerful Date clan of Sendai Domain. Its northern neighbor was the Nakamura Domain which was ruled by the Sōma clan. The han school was the Shiseidō (施政堂), founded by the Andō clan. The most famous culture created in the Iwakitaira Domain is the Jangara Nembutsu dance. ==History== The southern Hamadōri region of ancient Iwaki Province was ruled by the Iwaki clan from the Heian period through the end of the Sengoku period. However, the clan sided with the western alliance loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori during the Battle of Sekigahara and was dispossessed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who banished the clan to the minor Kameda Domain in what is now Yurihonjō, Akita. The four districts forming the former territory of the Iwaki clan was given in 1600 as a 100,000 koku domain to Torii Tadamasa, a childhood friend of Ieyasu. Tadamasa changed the kanji of "Iwa" from "岩" to "磐", as he did not feel it was appropriate to continue using the same kanji as the clan which had opposed Ieyasu. Tadamasa constructed a new castle, and laid out a new castle town before being transferred to Yamagata Domain in 1622. Iwakitaira Domain was assigned to Naito Masanaga. However, Masanaga transferred 20,000 ''koku'' domain to his eldest son, Naitō Tadaoki and another 10,000 ''koku'' to Hijikata Katsushige who respectively Izumi Domain and Kubota Domain, leaving Iwakitaira with 70,000 ''koku''. Under early Naitō rule, the domain implemented numerous fiscal reforms, developed large amounts of new rice lands, and constructed massive irrigation works. However, this prosperity did not last long, as later Naitō rulers were very young and often dissolute, preferring to leave government matters in the hands of subordinates, who often formed rival cliques, leading to oiesodo. A series of crop failures caused by implement weather led to a peasant revolt in 1738, at which point the Tokugawa shogunate stepped in, and transferred the Naitō to Nobeoka Domain in distant Kyushu. Iwakitaira Domain was then assigned to Inoue Masatsune, with much reduced revenues of 37,000 ''koku''. This was a significant demotion for Inoue, and history has little to stay of his ten-year tenure at Iwakitaira. In 1756, Andō Nobunari, formerly of Kanō Domain in Mino Province was assigned to Iwakitaira. The revenues of the domain were set at 50,000 ''koku'', which was a significant demotion from the 65,000 ''koku'' he enjoyed at Kanō Domain. However, after serving as ''Jisha-bugyō'' ''wakadoshiyori'' and from 1783 as ''rōjū'', his revenues were supplemented with an additional 17,000 ''koku'' from his former holdings in Mino. The Andō clan continued to rule Iwakitaira domain through the remainder of the Edo period.〔 The 5th Andō daimyo, Andō Nobumasa was active as ''rōjū'' in the wake of Ii Naosuke's assassination. Andō himself was also the target of an assassination attempt in 1862, which is remembered as the Sakashitamon Incident.〔Harootunian, ''Toward Restoration'', p. 276.〕 Although forced to retire with a reduction to 40,000 ''koku'' (and subsequently to 30,000 ''koku'') because of this incident, in 1868, during the Boshin War, Nobumasa took charge of the governance of Iwakidaira, and led its forces as part of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. During the Battle of Iwaki, Iwakitaira Castle was destroyed by the pro-imperial Satchō Alliance forces. The final daimyo of Iwakitaira, Andō Nobutake, surrendered to the Meiji government in March 1868, even before the Battle of Iwaki, and had been confirmed in his titles in April. However, in December he was told that he would not be allowed to return to Iwakitaira, but would be given a new 34,000 ''koku'' domain in Iwai District, Rikuchu Province. Nobutake protested the decision, and after paying a 70,000 Ryō fine on August 3, 1869, was permitted to return to Iwakitaira. He remained a domain governor until the abolition of the han system in July 1871. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iwakitaira Domain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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