Kaminoyama Domain

Kaminoyama Domain (上山藩, Kaminoyama han) a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Yamagata Prefecture), Japan.

During the Muromachi period, the area was noted as a hot spring resort and a stronghold of the Mogami clan.

After the destruction of the Mogami clan by the Tokugawa shogunate, Kamiyama Domain (40,000 koku) was created in 1622 for Matsudaira Shigetada, who laid out the plan of the future castle town.

Kaminoyama Domain was then ruled by the Fujii branch of the Matsudaira clan from 1698 until the Meiji restoration.

The domain had 2200 households per the 1852 census and maintained its primary Edo residence (kamiyashiki) in Azabu.