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Created page with "*''Japanese'': 土佐藩 ''(Tosa han)'' *''Other Names'': 高知藩 ''(Kouchi han)'' *''Territory: Tosa province'' *''Castle: Kôchi castle'' *''Lords: ..."
*''Japanese'': 土佐藩 ''(Tosa han)''
*''Other Names'': 高知藩 ''(Kouchi han)''
*''Territory: [[Tosa province]]''
*''Castle: [[Kochi castle|Kôchi castle]]''
*''Lords: [[Yamauchi clan]]''
*''[[Kokudaka]]: 200,000''
Tosa was a prominent ''[[tozama]]'' and ''[[kunimochi]]'' domain located on the island of [[Shikoku]]. The 200,000 ''[[koku]]''<ref>Vaporis, Constantine. "Lordly Pageantry: The Daimyo Procession and Political Authority." ''Japan Review'' 17 (2005). p11.</ref> domain was ruled by the [[Yamauchi clan]] from [[Kochi castle|Kôchi castle]], its territory roughly coterminous with [[Tosa province]].
Tosa is of particular significance in [[Bakumatsu Period|Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji Period]] politics as one of the chief domains (along with [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]] and [[Nagato han|Chôshû]]) from where many of the most prominent anti-bakufu ''[[shishi]]'' rebels, i.e. Imperial loyalists emerged. Prominent Tosa figures from that period include [[Sakamoto Ryoma|Sakamoto Ryôma]], [[Yoshida Toyo|Yoshida Tôyô]], [[Itagaki Taisuke]], and [[Takechi Zuizan]]. Tosa is also significant as the domain which, while [[Sat-Cho Alliance|Satsuma and Chôshû]] were preparing for war, presented Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] with a petition requesting that he step down; though in the end there was some considerable fighting in the lead-up to the [[Meiji Restoration]] and its immediate aftermath, in truth, the last shogun was not forced to resign at swordpoint, but rather accepted this Tosa petition and gave up his position willingly and relatively peacefully.
==Edo Period==
The domain's governance and laws were based, in part, on the "[[100 Article Code of the Chosokabe]]," written by the [[Chosokabe clan|Chôsokabe clan]] who ruled Tosa prior to the Yamauchi.
A particular type of [[Japanese long-tailed fowl]] called the ''onagadori'' was specially bred in Tosa, and its feathers were often used to decorate spears used in the lord's ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' processions, adding to the distinctiveness of Tosa's processions.
According to one account, Tosa was during the [[Edo period]] one of the strictest domains in terms of allowing individuals in and out of its borders, with only Satsuma, [[Awa han|Awa]], and [[Hizen han]] being identified as more tightly "closed."<ref>Munemasa Isoo 宗政五十緒, “Tachibana Nankei ‘Saiyūki’ to Edo kōki no kikō bungaku” 橘南谿『西遊記』と江戸後期の紀行文学, in ''Shin-Nihon koten bungaku taikei'' 新日本古典文学大系, vol. 98, (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1991), 442.</ref>
==Bakumatsu==
==Lords of Tosa==
#[[Yamauchi Kazutoyo]] (d. [[1605]])
#[[Yamauchi Tadayoshi]] ([[1592]]-[[1664]])
...
#[[Yamauchi Toyoteru]] (d. [[1848]])
#[[Yamauchi Toyoatsu]] ([[1825]]-[[1854]])
#[[Yamauchi Toyoshige]] (aka Yamauchi Yodo, [[1827]]-[[1872]])
==References==
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[[Category:Han]]
*''Other Names'': 高知藩 ''(Kouchi han)''
*''Territory: [[Tosa province]]''
*''Castle: [[Kochi castle|Kôchi castle]]''
*''Lords: [[Yamauchi clan]]''
*''[[Kokudaka]]: 200,000''
Tosa was a prominent ''[[tozama]]'' and ''[[kunimochi]]'' domain located on the island of [[Shikoku]]. The 200,000 ''[[koku]]''<ref>Vaporis, Constantine. "Lordly Pageantry: The Daimyo Procession and Political Authority." ''Japan Review'' 17 (2005). p11.</ref> domain was ruled by the [[Yamauchi clan]] from [[Kochi castle|Kôchi castle]], its territory roughly coterminous with [[Tosa province]].
Tosa is of particular significance in [[Bakumatsu Period|Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji Period]] politics as one of the chief domains (along with [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]] and [[Nagato han|Chôshû]]) from where many of the most prominent anti-bakufu ''[[shishi]]'' rebels, i.e. Imperial loyalists emerged. Prominent Tosa figures from that period include [[Sakamoto Ryoma|Sakamoto Ryôma]], [[Yoshida Toyo|Yoshida Tôyô]], [[Itagaki Taisuke]], and [[Takechi Zuizan]]. Tosa is also significant as the domain which, while [[Sat-Cho Alliance|Satsuma and Chôshû]] were preparing for war, presented Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] with a petition requesting that he step down; though in the end there was some considerable fighting in the lead-up to the [[Meiji Restoration]] and its immediate aftermath, in truth, the last shogun was not forced to resign at swordpoint, but rather accepted this Tosa petition and gave up his position willingly and relatively peacefully.
==Edo Period==
The domain's governance and laws were based, in part, on the "[[100 Article Code of the Chosokabe]]," written by the [[Chosokabe clan|Chôsokabe clan]] who ruled Tosa prior to the Yamauchi.
A particular type of [[Japanese long-tailed fowl]] called the ''onagadori'' was specially bred in Tosa, and its feathers were often used to decorate spears used in the lord's ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' processions, adding to the distinctiveness of Tosa's processions.
According to one account, Tosa was during the [[Edo period]] one of the strictest domains in terms of allowing individuals in and out of its borders, with only Satsuma, [[Awa han|Awa]], and [[Hizen han]] being identified as more tightly "closed."<ref>Munemasa Isoo 宗政五十緒, “Tachibana Nankei ‘Saiyūki’ to Edo kōki no kikō bungaku” 橘南谿『西遊記』と江戸後期の紀行文学, in ''Shin-Nihon koten bungaku taikei'' 新日本古典文学大系, vol. 98, (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1991), 442.</ref>
==Bakumatsu==
==Lords of Tosa==
#[[Yamauchi Kazutoyo]] (d. [[1605]])
#[[Yamauchi Tadayoshi]] ([[1592]]-[[1664]])
...
#[[Yamauchi Toyoteru]] (d. [[1848]])
#[[Yamauchi Toyoatsu]] ([[1825]]-[[1854]])
#[[Yamauchi Toyoshige]] (aka Yamauchi Yodo, [[1827]]-[[1872]])
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Han]]