Yoita Domain
fudai feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate
Yoita Domain (与板藩, Yoita-han) was a fudai feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was located in Echigo Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Yoita Jin'ya, located in what is now part of the city of Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture.
History
Yoita Domain began as a 10,000 koku holding created in 1634 for Makino Yasunari (1617–1658), a younger son of Makino Tadanari, 1st daimyō of Nagaoka Domain. The site of Yoita Jin'ya was the former residence of Uesugi Kagekatsu's senior retainer. Naoe Kanetsugu. The Makino ruled for three generations, and were transferred to Komoro Domain in Shinano Province in 1689. The territory reverted for a brief period to tenryō status from 1689-1705.
In 1705, Ii Naotomo, daimyō of Kakegawa Domain refused to participate in the mandatory sankin-kōtai to Edo, and was relieved of his office by the shogunate due to mental illness. Normally, this would have been cause for attainder, but the shogunate took into account the role of the Ii clan in the early days of the shogunate, and allowed his adopted son, Ii Naonori to inherit, albeit with a reduction in kokudaka from 35,000 to 20,000 koku.
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