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A group of unruly former [[Chosokabe clan|Chôsokabe]] retainers, including rural samurai called ''ichiryô gusoku'', resisted the [[Yamauchi clan|Yamauchi]] transfer, holing up in the [[Urado Castle|castle of Urado]], firing upon envoys of the Tokugawa, and insisting that [[Chosokabe Morichika|Chôsokabe Morichika]] be permitted to keep at least half his domain, as other lords had successfully negotiated to do. Ieyasu sent forces to help Kazutoyo take the castle, and with the help of [[Ii Naomasa]], [[Suzuki Hyoe|Suzuki Hyôe]], and others, including a number of senior Chôsokabe retainers who opened the gates to the castle, the Yamauchi were able to take the castle and claim control over the domain. As a result of his reliance on Ieyasu's aid in pacifying the domain, the Yamauchi remained considerably indebted to the Tokugawa in the early stages of the Edo period; the violent way in which Kazutoyo toppled the Chôsokabe, however, led to tensions with the samurai and other people of Tosa for some time to come. Following Kazutoyo's personal arrival in the domain on [[1601]]/1/2, many Chôsokabe retainers were banished from the domain and became ''ronin'', while others were executed by the Yamauchi; a few rural samurai were allowed to retain their land and status, becoming ''[[goshi|gôshi]]'', but many other rural samurai, while permitted to keep their land, were stripped of their samurai status, becoming peasants, albeit prominent ones, with many becoming village elders or headmen.

A group of unruly former [[Chosokabe clan|Chôsokabe]] retainers, including rural samurai called ''ichiryô gusoku'', resisted the [[Yamauchi clan|Yamauchi]] transfer, holing up in the [[Urado Castle|castle of Urado]], firing upon envoys of the Tokugawa, and insisting that [[Chosokabe Morichika|Chôsokabe Morichika]] be permitted to keep at least half his domain, as other lords had successfully negotiated to do. Ieyasu sent forces to help Kazutoyo take the castle, and with the help of [[Ii Naomasa]], [[Suzuki Hyoe|Suzuki Hyôe]], and others, including a number of senior Chôsokabe retainers who opened the gates to the castle, the Yamauchi were able to take the castle and claim control over the domain. As a result of his reliance on Ieyasu's aid in pacifying the domain, the Yamauchi remained considerably indebted to the Tokugawa in the early stages of the Edo period; the violent way in which Kazutoyo toppled the Chôsokabe, however, led to tensions with the samurai and other people of Tosa for some time to come. Following Kazutoyo's personal arrival in the domain on [[1601]]/1/2, many Chôsokabe retainers were banished from the domain and became ''ronin'', while others were executed by the Yamauchi; a few rural samurai were allowed to retain their land and status, becoming ''[[goshi|gôshi]]'', but many other rural samurai, while permitted to keep their land, were stripped of their samurai status, becoming peasants, albeit prominent ones, with many becoming village elders or headmen.

Tosa leaders calculated the domain's ''[[kokudaka]]'' based on Chôsokabe cadastral surveys, reporting a figure just above 200,000 ''[[koku]]'' to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in [[1604]]; this figure would become the domain's official ''kokudaka'' for the remainder of the period. Kazutoyo dispersed lands to his retainers, granting the castle of Nakamura and land worth 20,000 ''koku'' to his brother [[Yamauchi Yasutoyo]], while another set of lands, ranging in value from 1100 to 10,000 ''koku'' and each centered at a castle, were granted to five of his most senior retainers. Roughly one hundred lower-ranking samurai each got fiefs ranging from 20 ''koku'' to 7,000 in value, along with residences in Kôchi, while the remaining lower-ranking retainers received stipends but no land in fief. Kazutoyo's personal domain as lord constituted about 45,000 ''koku'' worth of land.

Tosa leaders calculated the domain's ''[[kokudaka]]'' based on Chôsokabe cadastral surveys, reporting a figure just above 200,000 ''[[koku]]'' to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in [[1604]]; this figure would become the domain's official ''kokudaka'' for the remainder of the period. Kazutoyo dispersed lands to his retainers, retaining roughly 45,000 ''koku'' worth of land for himself, and granting the castle of Nakamura and land worth 20,000 ''koku'' to his brother [[Yamauchi Yasutoyo]], while another set of lands, ranging in value from 1100 to 10,000 ''koku'' and each centered at a castle, were granted to five of his most senior retainers. Roughly one hundred lower-ranking samurai each got fiefs ranging from 20 ''koku'' to 7,000 in value, along with residences in Kôchi, while the remaining lower-ranking retainers received stipends but no land in fief. As most of Kazutoyo's retainers were not originally from Tosa, but had come with him from Honshû, they had no fiefs to be removed from, and so most were able to be easily concentrated in the new castle town of Kôchi, where they were provided with residences. Even those who were granted fiefs elsewhere in the domain were, in most cases, given collections of spots of land scattered across a number of villages; these could serve to provide the retainer with tax income, but were intentionally not well-suited to become powerful local bases of power.

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==References==

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*[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (2002), 33-38.

*[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (2002), 33-40.

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