Kanō Domain
History. Before the Battle of Sekigahara, the central Mino Province was ruled by Oda Hidenobu, Oda Nobunaga's grandson, from his base at Gifu Castle. However, as Hidenobu sided with Ishida Mitsunari at the Battle of Sekigahara, his territory was confiscated by Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1601, Ieyasu granted the area to his son-in-law Okudaira Nobumasa. Okudaira Nobumasa was allowed to build Kanō Castle with materials from the dismantled Gifu Castle. This was the birth of the Kanō Domain. Nobumasa's placement at Kanō was meant to act as a check against the potentially hostile lords of  western Japan, who might have wanted to march eastward against Ieyasu. Nobumasa retired in 1602, handing over the position of "daimyō" to his son Okudaira Tadamasa; however, he retained 40,000 of the domain's 100,000 "koku" as a "retirement fund", and continued to hold actual power, establishing a system of flood control and aiding in the setup of the castletown. Nobumasa and Tadamasa died in quick succession; the third Okudaira lord of Kanō, Tadataka, died heirless in 1632, and so Okudaira rule in Kanō came to an end. Kanō was then given to the Ōkubo clan, with a reduced "kokudaka  of 50,000 koku from 1632-1639. Ōkubo Tadamoto was transferred from Kisai Domain in Musashi Province (which was dissolved as a result) and subsequently swapped places with the Matsudaira-Toda clan of Akashi Domain in Harima Province. Under the Toda (1639-1711), the domain had a rated kokudaka" of 70,000 "koku". The Toda ruled until their transfer to Yodo Domain in Yamashiro Province in 1711. They were followed by the Andō clan from Bitchu-Matsuyama Domain (1711-1756), initially at 65,000 "koku", but later reduced to 50,000 "koku" due to misrule before they were transferred to Iwakitaira Domain in Mutsu  Province. The Nagai clan, from Iwatsuki Domain in Musashi Province, ruled from 1756 until the Meiji restoration, with a "kokudaka" reduced to 32,000 "koku". The 4th Nagai "daimyō", Nagai Naosuke, served the Tokugawa shogunate as a "wakadoshiyori", as did the final "daimyō", Nagai Naokoto. During the Boshin War, the domain organized a surrender to Iwakura Tomomi without a fight. After the Meiji restoration, Nagai Naokoto served as Domain governor until the abolition of the han system in 1871, and later received the "kazoku" peerage title of viscount. Bakumatsu period holdings. As with most domains in the han system, Kanō Domain  consisted of a discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned "kokudaka", based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.