Kurokawa Domain

The domain was centered at Kurokawa Jin'ya, located in what is now part of the city of Tainai in Niigata Prefecture.

Although the Yanagisawa clan remained in control until the Meiji restoration, they preferred to reside in Edo and rely on the collection of revenues as absentee landlords.

Under the new Meiji government, Yanagisawa Mitsukuni was given the kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount),[3] and later served as a member of the House of Peers As with most domains in the han system, Kurokawa Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.

In 1709, he received a fief of 10,000 koku from his father's lands in Kōfu Domain, and in 1710 underwent the genpuku ceremony.

In 1724, his estates were transferred from Kōfu to Echigo Province, and he became daimyō of Kurokawa; however, he died only four months later at the age of 32.

He was the fifth son of Yanagisawa Yoshikiyo, a samurai of Yamato-Kōriyama Domain, and was adopted posthumously to succeed the childless Tsunetaka.

He served as Osaka kaban and Nikkō Bugyō, but died in 1735 at the clan's Magome residence in Edo without heir.

He was the eldest son of Yanagisawa Satomitsu, a samurai of Yamato-Kōriyama Domain, and the nephew of Satozumi, and was adopted posthumously to succeed the latter on his unexpected death.

He was the eldest son of Yanagisawa Nobutō, and became daimyō on the death of his father in 1797. he was received in formal audience by Shōgun Tokugawa Ienari the same year.

He was the tenth son of Yanagisawa Yasuhiro of Yamato-Kōriyama Domain and was posthumously adopted to succeed Yanagasawa Mitsugi in 1836.

In 1869, the new Meiji government appointed him imperial governor of Kurokawa, which he held to the abolition of the han system in 1871.