# Koizumi Domain

Koizumi Domain (小泉藩, Koizumi-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was centered around Koizumi jin'ya in what is now the city of Yamatokōriyama, Nara and was ruled by the tozama daimyō Katagiri clan for all of its history.

## History

Katagiri Sadataka, the younger brother of Katagiri Katsumoto (who was famous as one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake) served Toyotomi Hideyoshi and achieved military exploits in the Battle of Odawara and the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), for which he was awarded with a fief of 10,000 koku in Harima Province. Sadataka supported the Toyotomi Hideyori after Hideyoshi's death, along with his older brother Katsumoto. Following the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, he was transferred from Harima to a new 10,000 koku fief in Yamato Province. This marked the start of Koizumi Domain. In 1614, during the incident involving the inscription on a bell sponsored by Toyotomi Hideyori at the temple of Hōkō-ji in Kyoto (which Tokugawa Ieyasu was attempting to use as a casus belli against the Toyotomi clan), the Katagiri brothers were suspected by Hideyori of secretly communicating with Ieyasu. Sadataka withdrew from Osaka Castle with Katsumoto and moved to Ibaraki in Settsu Province. When evacuating from Osaka Castle, the 300 soldiers of the Katagiri clan were fully armed and made a spectacular move of lighting the matchlocks of their guns. The Toyotomi lost a critical component of its forces and were defeated in the Siege of Osaka that began in the same year. In return, Katagiri Sadataka became a vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu and received an increase of 6,000 koku, bringing his kokudaka to 16,000 koku.
The second daimyō, Katagiri Sadamasa, was a well-known master of the Japanese tea ceremony under the name "Sekishu". In 1665, he became instructor to Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna, and establish the Sekishu school of tea ceremony. He distributed 3,000 koku to his younger brother Katagiri Sadaharu to establish a cadet branch of the clan. The third daimyō, Katagiri Sadafusa, likewise granted 1000 koku to his illegitimate brother, Katagiri Nobutaka, followed by a second 1000 koku, bringing the total of the domain to 11,000 koku.
The fifth daimyō, Katagiri Sadanari, was reprimanded by the shogunate in 1749 for being unfilial for arbitrarily punishing Katagiri Nobuyoshi (a descendant of Nobutaka, the eldest illegitimate son of the second feudal lord Katagiri Sadamasa) and was suspended from service, but was pardoned after a month. The eighth daimyō, Katagiri Sadanobu, was a noted tea master under the name "Shunsai", and formed his own branch of the Sekishu-ryū school. In the Bakumatsu period, the main line of succession of the Katagiri line died out, and the 11th daimyō, Katagiri Sadatoshi, was adopted into the clan from Hitachi-Fuchū Domain. He distinguished himself by suppressing the Tenchu-gumi rebellion. In 1868, during the Boshin War, he sided with the new government and was responsible for the defense of Kyoto. He became imperial governor of Koizumi from 1869 to the abolition of the han system in 1871.

## Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the han system, Koizumi Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.
* Yamashiro Province
** 1 village in Kuse District
** 1 village in Sōraku District
* Yamato Province
** 1 village in Soekami District
** 8 villages in Soejima District
* Izumi Province
** 1 village in Izumi District
* Settsu Province
** 2 villages in Kawabe District

## List of daimyō

    #NameTenureCourtesy titleCourt Rankkokudaka Katagiri clan, 1600 - 1871(Tozama daimyo) 1Katagiri Sadataka (片桐 貞隆)1600 - 1627Jūzen-no-kami (主膳正)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)16,000 koku 2Katagiri Sadamasa (片桐貞昌)1627 - 1673Iwami-no-kami (石見守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)16,000 -> 13,000 koku 3Katagiri Sadafusa (片桐定房)1674 - 1710Jūzen-no-kami (主膳正)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)13,000 -> 12,000 ->11,000 koku 4Katagiri Sadaoki (片桐貞起)1710 - 1741Iwami-no-kami (石見守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku 5Katagiri Sadanari (片桐貞音)1741 - 1750Jūzen-no-kami (主膳正)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku 6Katagiri Sadayoshi (片桐貞芳)1750 - 1787Iwami-no-kami (石見守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku 7Katagiri Sadaaki (片桐貞彰)1787 - 1822Iwami-no-kami (石見守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku 8Katagiri Sadanobu (片桐貞信)1822 - 1841Iwami-no-kami (石見守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku 9Katagiri Sadanaka (片桐貞中)1841 - 1843Sado-no-kami (佐渡守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku 10Katagiri Sadateru (片桐貞照)1843 - 1862Iwami-no-kami (石見守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku 11Katagiri Sadatoshi (片桐貞利)1862-none-Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku 12Katagiri Sadaatsu (片桐貞篤)1862 - 1871-non-Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)11,000 koku