Ōgaki Domain

The  was a Japanese domain during the Edo period, located in Mino Province (modern-day Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture).

History
Historically, the Ōgaki area had been a highly important point of transit from Mino Province to Ōmi Province; it was vital to Saitō Dōsan and later to Oda Nobunaga. In the Edo period, the domain changed hands several times before it was given to the Toda clan, who held it until the Meiji Restoration.

The Ōgaki Domain took part in the Boshin War, first on the side of the Shogunate, and then as one of the components of the imperial army which was at the forefront of the offensive against Aizu and the northern domains.

In the Meiji period, the Toda family of Ōgaki received the rank of viscount (伯爵 hakushaku) in the new kazoku nobility.

List of lords

Ishikawa clan (Fudai; 50,000 koku)
Ishikawa Yasumichi
Ishikawa Ienari
Ishikawa Tadafusa

Matsudaira (Hisamatsu) clan (Fudai; 20,000 koku)
Matsudaira Tadayoshi
Matsudaira Norinaga

Abe clan (Fudai; 50,000 koku)
Abe Nagamori
Abe Nobukatsu

Matsudaira (Hisamatsu) clan (Shinpan; 60,000 koku)
Matsudaira Sadatsuna

Toda clan (Fudai; 100,000 koku)
Toda Ujikane
Toda Ujinobu
Toda Ujiaki
Toda Ujisada
Toda Ujinaga
Toda Ujihide
Toda Ujinori
Toda Ujikane
Toda Ujimasa
Toda Ujiakira
Toda Ujitaka
Toda Ujihide

In fiction

The Ōgaki domain is the setting for Yamamoto Shūgorō's novel Hanamushiro (translated into English as The Flower Mat).

Further reading
Yamamoto Shūgorō (1977). The Flower Mat. Translated by Mihoko Inoue and Eileen B. Hennessy. (Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle Co.)

References

Category:Domains of Japan