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*''[[Kokudaka]]: 12,000''

*''[[Kokudaka]]: 12,000''

Tahara han was a small [[han|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]].

Tahara han was a small [[han|domain]] located in [[Mikawa province]], initially ruled by the [[Toda clan]] (''fudai daimyô''), and then by the [[Miyake clan]] (also ''fudai daimyô'') from [[1664]] onwards. 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<ref>Roberts. p65.</ref>, located on a peninsula between Mikawa Bay and the Pacific. The area was not particularly agriculturally fertile, nor an area exceptionally rich in marine products, but at the same time, the domain suffered very few losses from famine over the course of the period.<ref name=taiyo>''Edo Daimyô Hyakke'' 江戸大名百家. ''Bessatsu Taiyô'' 別冊太陽. Spring 1978. p126.</ref>

The domain's territory consisted of only twenty-four villages, alongside the castle town of Tahara<ref>Roberts. p65.</ref>, located on a peninsula between Mikawa Bay and the Pacific. The area was not particularly agriculturally fertile, nor an area exceptionally rich in marine products, but at the same time, the domain suffered very few losses from famine over the course of the period.<ref name=taiyo>''Edo Daimyô Hyakke'' 江戸大名百家. ''Bessatsu Taiyô'' 別冊太陽. Spring 1978. p126.</ref>

The painter and scholar Watanabe Kazan was a prominent and influential advisor for the domain's administrators, overseeing the domain's maritime defenses and staffing appointments, among other contributions. However, he was arrested as part of an [[1839]] suppression of ''[[rangaku]]'' (Western/Dutch Studies) scholars known as ''[[Bansha no goku]]'', and put under house arrest in Tahara; he committed suicide shortly afterwards.<ref name=taiyo/>

The painter and scholar Watanabe Kazan was a prominent and influential advisor for the domain's administrators, overseeing the domain's maritime defenses and staffing appointments, among other contributions. However, he was arrested as part of an [[1839]] suppression of ''[[rangaku]]'' (Western/Dutch Studies) scholars known as ''[[Bansha no goku]]'', and put under house arrest in Tahara; he committed suicide shortly afterwards.<ref name=taiyo/>

==Daimyô of Tahara==

==Daimyô of Tahara==

#[[Miyake Yasukatsu]] (d. [[1687]]/8/9)<ref name=same>Actual death date officially reported.</ref>

#[[Miyake Yasukatsu]] (d. [[1687]]/8/9)<ref name=same>Actual death date officially reported.</ref>

#[[Miyake Yasuo]] (d. actual date [[1726]]/10/4; official reported date 10/6)

#[[Miyake Yasuo]] (d. actual date [[1726]]/10/4; official reported date 10/6)

#[[Miyake Yasutoku]] (d. [[1753]]/12/1; official 12/3)

#[[Miyake Yasunori]] (d. [[1753]]/12/1; official 12/3)

#[[Miyake Yasutaka]] (d. [[1791]]/3/14, ret.; official 3/21)

#[[Miyake Yasutaka]] (d. [[1791]]/3/14, ret.; official 3/21)

#[[Miyake Yasusuke]] (d. [[1803]]/8/9, ret.; official 8/16)

#[[Miyake Yasuyuki]]

#[[Miyake Yasutake]] (d. [[1785]]/9/12; official 9/21)

#[[Miyake Yasutake]] (d. [[1785]]/9/12; official 9/21)

#[[Miyake Yasukuni]] (d. [[1792]]/2/29; official 3/23)

#[[Miyake Yasukuni]] (d. [[1792]]/2/29; official 3/23)

#[[Miyake Yasuteru]] (d. [[1827]]/7/10; official 10/23)

#[[Miyake Yasuteru]] (d. [[1827]]/7/10; official 10/23)

#[[Miyake Yasunao]] (d. [[1893]]/8/9, ret.)<ref name=same/><ref>Roberts. p95.</ref>

#[[Miyake Yasunao]] (d. [[1893]]/8/9, ret.)<ref name=same/><ref>Roberts. p95.</ref>

''(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.)''

''(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.)''

*[[Luke Roberts|Roberts, Luke]]. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. University of Hawaii Press, 2012.

*[[Luke Roberts|Roberts, Luke]]. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. University of Hawaii Press, 2012.

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