Kaibara Domain

Although he sided with the losing Western Army during the Battle of Sekigahara, he was allowed to retain his domain, and afterwards continued in the service of Toyotomi Hideyori at Osaka Castle.

In 1650, the 3rd daimyo, Oda Nobukatsu died without heir and the domain was abolished and administered as tenryō directly by the Tokugawa shogunate.

The shogunate demoted his son, Oda Nobuyasu, by reducing his kokudaka from 28,000 to 20,000 koku and ordering his transfer to the restored Kaibara Domain.

The issue of financial crisis continued through successive daimyō, with the domain forced to dismiss most of its retainers, reduce stipends for the remainder and borrow heavily.

The situation was not helped by the 5th daimyō, Oda Nobumori, whose profligate spending on his mistress and his continuing meddling in political affair led to an uprising, followed by peasant revolts in 1824 and 1833 due to inflation.

[4] As with most domains in the han system, which consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.

Kaibara jin'ya
Nagayamon at the Kaibara jin'ya