Tahara han

• Japanese: 田原藩 (Tahara han)
• Territory: parts of Mikawa province
• Castle: Tahara castle
• Lords: Miyake clan
• Kokudaka: 12,000

Tahara han was a small domain located in Mikawa province, ruled by the Miyake clan. The domain is perhaps most famous for being the home of prominent Edo period scholar Watanabe Kazan.

The domain's territory consisted of only twenty-four villages, alongside the castle town of Tahara. Tahara was centrally administered as a single judicial and administrative unit, and though some retainers were given honorary "fief-holding" status, all received stipends and none enjoyed a significant degree of administrative power in their "fiefs."

Daimyô of Tahara

1. Miyake Yasukatsu (d. 1687/8/9)
2. Miyake Yasuo (d. actual date 1726/10/4; official reported date 10/6)
3. Miyake Yasutoku (d. 1753/12/1; official 12/3)
4. Miyake Yasutaka (d. 1791/3/14, ret.; official 3/21)
5. Miyake Yasusuke (d. 1803/8/9, ret.; official 8/16)
6. Miyake Yasutake (d. 1785/9/12; official 9/21)
7. Miyake Yasukuni (d. 1792/2/29; official 3/23)
8. Miyake Yasutomo (d. 1809/3/20; official 5/6)
9. Miyake Yasukazu (d. 1823/2/8; official 5/16)
10. Miyake Yasuaki (d. 1827/7/10; official 10/23)
11. Miyake Yasunao (d. 1893/8/9, ret.)

(As was quite common among Edo period daimyô, the actual death dates, and the dates officially reported and recorded, often differ. The actual death date is given here first. Those figures labeled with "ret." died after retiring as daimyô.)

Other Prominent Figures from Tahara

• Watanabe Kazan

References

• Roberts, Luke. Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2012.