Izushi han

• Territory: parts of Tajima province
• Lords: Sengoku clan
• Kokudaka: 58,000, (after 1835) 30,000
• Japanese: 出石藩 (Izushi han)

Izushi han was a 58,000 koku domain in Tajima province, ruled by the tozama daimyô of the Sengoku clan.

The Sengoku were a "castle-holding" (shiro-nushi or shiro-mochi) daimyô family, the earliest to be assigned to the yanagi-no-ma of Edo castle (and thus boasting a certain elite status among that group of daimyô). Their upper mansion (kami yashiki) in Edo was located in the Nishinokubo neighborhood (today, Minato-ku, Kamiyachô).

As the result of an internal succession dispute, the domain's kokudaka was reduced in 1835 by 28,000 koku, such that through the end of the Edo period, the domain's kokudaka was only 30,000 koku. The daimyô at that time was Sengoku Sanuki-no-kami Hisatoshi.

References

• Yamamoto Hirofumi, Sankin kôtai, Kodansha gendai shinsho (1998), 184.