Fukiake Domain
History. The Arima clan ruled Kurume Domain (210,000 "koku") in Chikuzen Province. Arima Yoritsudo, the third son of the founder of the domain, Arima Toyouji, was allowed to found his own branch of the clan, and served as a "hatamoto" to "Shōgun" Tokugawa Hidetada and to his son, Tokugawa Tadanaga, with revenues of 10,000 "koku", although he was not formally styled as a "daimyō". His descendants served the Kii-branch of the Tokugawa clan for several generations. In 1726, "shōgun" Tokugawa Yoshinobu raised Arima Ujinori to the status of "daimyō" of Ise-Saijō Domain (10,000 "koku"). Five generations  later, his descendants transferred the seat of the domain to Goi Domain in Kazusa Province in 1781. Another five generations later, in 1842, Arima Ujishige moved the seat of the domain once again, to Fukiage. His son, Arima Ujihiro, inherited the domain in 1862, but was only age 2 at the time, and the administration of the domain remained in the hands of its "Karō". The domain attacked Ashikaga Domain in its support of the suppression of the Mito rebellion in 1864, but quickly sided with the pro-imperial cause in the Boshin war of the Meiji restoration and fielded  troops in suppression of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei in 1868. In March 1869, a group of nine samurai of the domain stormed its Edo residence, and assassinated the "Karō", who had been discovered to have embezzled funds provided by the government for the assistance of the families of the domain’s samurai who had fallen in battle. After the abolition of the han system in July 1871, Fukiage Domain became part of Tochigi Prefecture. The domain had a population of 6,826 people in 1473 households, of which 383 were samurai in 106 households per a census in 1870. Holdings at  the end of the Edo period. As with most domains in the han system, Fukiage Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned "kokudaka", based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. Due to its history, its territory was divided between Shimotsuke and Ise Provinces.