Ojima Domain
[2] In May 1689, Matsudaira Nobunari, the adopted son of the castellan of Sunpu Castle, and a wakadoshiyori in the Tokugawa Shogunate was elevated from his former hatamoto status of 4000 koku, to daimyō status of 10,000 koku, and assigned the territory of Ojima, to the east of Sunpu, to be his domain.
During the period of the 4th daimyō, Matsudaira Masanobu, the domain faced bankruptcy, which he attempted to resolve with such a large increase in taxes that its peasants rose in a revolt in 1768.
The 9th daimyō, Matsudaira Nobuyuki, made all industry within the domain a government monopoly, and sold off permits to raise money.
During the Bakumatsu period, the 11th (and final) daimyō, Matsudaira Nobutoshi, sided with the new Meiji government in the Boshin War of 1867.
He rose through various minor positions within the shogun administration and by 1689 had amassed 10,000 koku, which qualified him for the rank of daimyō.
He was the son of Toda Shigetsuna, a 6400 koku hatamoto and his mother was the younger sister of Matsudaira Nobunari.
His wife was a daughter of Tamura Tatsuaki of Ichinoseki Domain; however, both of his sons died in childhood.
During his brief tenure he attempted to improve on the domain's financial situation by aggressively collecting taxes, but to no avail.
During his tenure he attempted to improve on the domain's financial situation by aggressively collecting taxes, opening new rice lands, increasing corvee labor, to the extent that when he was away as Osaka kaban in 1764, the peasants of the domain rose in revolt.
He was the eldest son of Hori Naotaka of Muramatsu Domain and was adopted as heir by marriage to Matsudaira Shigenobu's daughter.
During his tenure, a popular Kibyōshi was published in Edo by Koikawa Harumachi which was highly satirical of the shogunal administration.
This came to the attention of the authorities, who discovered that "Koikawa Tarumachi" was a pen-name for Kurahashi Itaru, one of Nobunori's senior retainers.
He was the eldest son of Matsudaira Nobunori and became daimyō in 1780 on his father's forced retirement.
During his tenure, over concerns of foreign invasion raised by the Perry Expedition, he did what he could increase the domain's meagre military capability.
Takiwaki Nobutoshi (滝脇信敏, September 18, 1851-August 10, 1887) was the 11th (and final) daimyō of Ojima Domain.
He was the ninth son of Naitō Yoriyasu of Takatō Domain and was adopted posthumously as heir to Matsudaira Nobufumi in 1864.
The new jin'ya was completed in 1869, and he resided in Kazusa as Imperial Governor of Sakurai until the abolition of the han system in 1871.
