During the 260-year reign of the Edo shogunate (1603-1868), there were about 500 large and small domains in Japan before and after, and on average, there were about 270 domains in each era, so there was the name of "Edo Shogunate Three Hundred Domains", and today we will introduce the Sabo Domain.
Kyushu Domains
During the Edo period, the Sabo Domain was a domain of the Bungo Domain in the Kyushu region of the Edo period, the territory was located in Kaibe-gun, Toyoko Kingdom, the lord of the domain was the Mori clan, and the domain was located in Sabo Castle, with a stone height of 20,000 stones.
Saeki Castle Honmaru Ishigaki
The terrain in the domain of Zober was undulating and arable land was very scarce, so its agriculture was not developed, but his coast was a rias-type coast, with many pools (where the water or the river flowed into the sea), so that his fishery and maritime transportation industries were very developed, and these industries became his main source of finance.
After the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, the original lord of the area, the Saburō clan, as a vassal of the Ōtomo clan, came to Kyushu with the lord's family and gradually took over the Saburō region, which has been under the jurisdiction of the Ōtomo clan ever since, but with the Ōtomo clan's loss of power in 1593, the Ōtomo clan was changed, and the Sabo clan also lost its right to rule the local area, and the area was handed over to the acting officials as the hiding place of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Ōtomo Yoshinori's father, Ōtomo Muneyoshi
In 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara broke out, and although Māori Takamasa, who was a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's family, initially belonged to the Western Army, but later in the war, under the persuasion of Takato Fujido, he switched to the Eastern Army, thus preserving the territory, and in the following year (1601), the 20,000 stones of The Toyota Domain of Hitago Domain with the same stone height were transferred to the 20,000 stones of Sagaru Tsubaki Castle, and thus the Sabo Domain was created, and the Maori Takamasa was the first lord of the Saburō Domain.
Regarding Maori Takamasa, he was the second son of Oda Nobunaga's minister Mori Takaji (1528-1597), originally named Mori Tomoshige, who began to produce Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1577 and was enfeoffed with the 3,000-stone domain of Matsutsugo, Amashi-gun in 1578, becoming one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's lineage.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
In 1582, after the honnoji Rebellion, During Hideyoshi's peace with the Maori clan, Mori Tomoshige was handed over to the Maori side as one of the hostages, and in the process, he was fortunate to be favored by the Maori clan as the lord of the Maori clan, and became a brother with a different surname, so he changed his surname to "Maori Clan". (PS: The original name should have been "Maori Tomoshige", and the change of name to Maori Takasa was during the Tokugawa shogunate era, but for convenience, I chose to call it "Maori Takasatsu" directly below.
Maori Huiyuan
In 1587, Māori Takamasa took part in the Kyushu Expedition as a boat, and after the war was enfeoffed with the 20,000-stone domains of Hita Anda Anduga Andhō-gun, which lasted until after the Battle of Sekigahara.
After the high government of Maori was enthroned, he felt that the original castle of Tsugamatsu Castle was too remote and the traffic was very inconvenient, so he chose to rebuild a new castle, Sabo Castle, at the mouth of the Banshiro River, and also built the castle town at the foot of the mountain. The construction of Sagabo Castle continued until 1606, but the construction of castle town took longer.
In addition, Māori Takamasa re-inspected the domain, and due to the lack of arable land, he began to encourage and promulgate policies related to the development of new fields, laying the foundation of the Saburō domain.
Maori family pattern
However, as a foreign daimyō, he soon received a job from the shogunate, and with the need to attend to the work and build the Edo Domain Residence, the financial situation of the Minor Domain soon deteriorated.
In 1614, during the Osaka Winter Front, Maori Takamasa joined the Tokugawa side and was responsible for the garrison of Bizen Island and Kyobashi;
By the time of the Osaka Summer Battle in 1615, Maori Takamasa was allowed to fight in Osaka, but by the time he arrived, the battle was over.
In 1628, Māori Takamasa died at the age of 70, and the position of governor was succeeded by his second son, Māori Takanari, as the second lord of the Sabo Domain.
In 1632, Kato Tadahiro, the lord of the Kumamoto Domain in Higo Domain, was relegated, and Māori Takanari and Nakagawa Hisamori, the lord of the Oka Domain, were in charge of the garrison of Kumamoto Castle during the period of the change.
However, after completing the security work, Maori Takanori suddenly fell ill on the way back to honjo domain and died shortly afterwards at the age of 30, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Mori Takanaga, who was only 4 years old, and was the third generation lord of the Zobor Domain.
Before maori Takashi succeeded to the throne, there had been a controversy around the position of the lord of the clan, among which the faction headed by the younger brother of the original lord Maori Takashi (Takashi's uncle) who advocated the establishment of Maori Takashi (Takashi's uncle) and the faction that advocated the establishment of Maori Takashi had a confrontation, and almost triggered a disturbance in the imperial family, and the final result of the confrontation was of course that the faction that supported Maori Takashi had the upper hand and won the victory.
Unable to accept this result, Māori Anji was furious and handed over the 2,000 stone chiyuki he owned to the shogunate and became the banner of the shogunate; and maori Gauding naturally could not gain a foothold in the domain, and was recruited by the shogunate as a flag with 300 yuan of chikuyuki. (PS: When the Maori Takashi Clan was established, the 2,000-stone domain of Mori Anji was given, and although the height of the stone was reduced by 2,000 stones, the Size of the Sabo Domain still retained 20,000 stones)
Zoe Castle Lookout
After his succession, because Maori Takayoshi was too young, he was assisted by the elder family and Kawa Nobuyoshi and Isobe Sanzoemon and others to manage the domain, but around the dominance of the domain and Kawa Nobunaga and Isobe Sanzuoemon also had a confrontation, making the situation of the domain during Mori Takashi's tenure very difficult.
In 1664, Maori Gao Zhi died at the age of 35. The position of governor was inherited by his eldest son, Maori Takashige, who was the fourth generation lord of the Saburō Domain.
During his tenure, Takashige Mori was deposed for wrongdoing.
In 1682, Takashige Mori died suddenly at the age of 21 at the age of 21, childless, while attending a banquet for the lord of the Usuki Domain, Inaba Keitoshi, and was succeeded by his adopted son, Mori Takahisa, who was the fifth lord of the Saburō Domain. Mori Takahisa was the third son of Mori Domain lord Kurushima Tōkiyoshi, and after Mori Takashige's death, he was welcomed into the Saburō Domain as the last adopted son.
Kurujima is clear
During his tenure, Takahisa built the Odai Road in 1691 in order to increase the harvest of the fields.
In 1699, Maori Takahisa lived in seclusion and was childless, and the position of governor was inherited by his adopted son Maori Takaaki, who was the sixth lord of the Sabo Domain.
Maori Takahisa married the five daughters of Minami Nobubu as the main chamber, but, probably due to Takahisa's personality, the relationship between the couple gradually deteriorated, and the two finally divorced in 1587. After the divorce, Maori Takahisa did not choose to remarry, but adopted his brother Gao Ding (the fifth son of Kurushima Tōki) as his adopted son and changed his name to Maori Takayoshi.
Maori Gaoqing was known as the Ming Emperor of the Zobor Domain, during his tenure of office, he selected and used a group of capable talents in the domain, implemented a strict reward and punishment system, and implemented the policy of breeding and developing the industry with papermaking and charcoal industry as the core in the domain, and also vigorously developed fisheries and animal husbandry, in addition, he also rectified the water conservancy projects and various checkpoints in the domain.
Coast of the Rias type
In 1742, Maori Gaoqing lived in seclusion, and the position of governor was inherited by his grandson Maori Takahashi, who was the seventh generation lord of the Zobor Domain. Maori Takayoshi originally chose his eldest son Maori Gaotong (1703-1733) as his heir, but due to Qualcomm's frail health, he was deposed in 1729. Later, Maori Takayoshi re-established his second son Maori Takanen (1715-1740) as his heir, and did not expect Gaoneng to die in 1740. In this case, Maori Gaoqing finally adopted the eldest son Maori Gaotong's eldest son Maori Gaoqiu as a new heir, and adopted him as an adopted son.
The so-called prosperity and decline, the late period of Gao Qing's reign began to show signs of social unrest in the Sabo domain, and when maori Takahashi succeeded to the throne, this phenomenon appeared to intensify, and even the phenomenon of ordinary people fleeing to neighboring domains occurred, so Takagaoka mainly spent his energy on the stability of the domain during his tenure.
In 1760, Maori Takahashi died at the age of 33, and the position of governor was inherited by his second son, Maori Takabi, who was the eighth lord of the Sabo Domain.
Now the city of Zober
At the beginning of his term of office, a series of natural disasters, including fires, occurred in the Zobo Domain, which made it increasingly difficult for the domain to become financially difficult. In order to be able to revive the treasury, Maori Takabi implemented a feudal reform mainly based on a policy of austerity within the domain, and he issued and implemented a strict economical decree, cutting half of the clan for his vassals who knew more than 200 stones, and issuing a clan within the domain.
In addition, Māori Takabi also attached great importance to the promotion of cultural education, and during his tenure, he built four churches of the domain school, and opened the Saburō Bunko Library in 1781, which contained more than 80,000 books including Chinese books, medical books, Buddhist books, history books, orchid books, and paintings, leaving a great influence on future generations, and therefore Māori Takabi and the lord of the Inaba Kingdom Wakasa Domain, Ikeda Tsunari, and the lord of the Omi Inzenji Domain, Ichibashi Nagasaki, were called "the three famous people of good learning in the Kwonjong period".
In 1801, Maori Takabi died at the age of 47, and the position of governor was inherited by his eldest son, Maori Takasei, who was the ninth lord of the Sabo Domain.
After succeeding to the throne, Māori Takasei carried out the reform of the clan administration and worked hard to promote cultural education like his father Takabi, and opened three provinces in the domain, including The Imperial Household, the Mikin Province, and the Kanting Province. However, due to the outbreak of the people in the neighboring Oka Domain in 1811, the Oka Domain also broke out a large-scale people's war in 1812, so that the reform had to be abandoned halfway, and finally it was the efforts of the old family's kura weaving department that it was put to rest.
Now the range of the city of Zobe (dark red)
In the same year, the battered Maori Gaocheng chose to live in seclusion, and the position of governor was inherited by his eldest son Maori Gaohan, who was the tenth lord of the Zobor Domain.
After maori Gaohan succeeded to the throne, he followed his grandfather and father' example and further implemented the development of the policy of cultural and educational rewards, which also made the literary aspects of the domain extremely prosperous during this period, and a large number of talents including Nakajima Ziyu appeared, but the cost of this was soon revealed, and the financial situation of the Zuobo domain became more difficult, so in order to alleviate the financial pressure, Maori Gaohan began to implement a series of financial development policies such as new field development, water conservancy management, and breeding and development.
In 1832, Māori Gohan lived in seclusion, and the position of governor was given by his eldest son, Maori Gotai, who was the eleventh lord of the Zobor Domain.
During his tenure, in order to rebuild the treasury, Maori Gaotai began to implement a monopoly system of products in the domain, raising prices, restricting the circulation of seafood and other specialties, and further implementing the policy of breeding and developing the industry.
Sannomaru Yaguramon Gate
By 1853, affected by the Black Ship Incident, Maori Gaotai began to attach importance to coastal defense work, and began to imitate the Western military system in the domain, casting new cannons, building coastal forts, and conducting artillery training.
In 1862, Maori Gaotai lived in seclusion, and the position of governor was inherited by his eldest son Maori Gaoqian, who was the twelfth lord of the Zobor Domain.
After succeeding to the throne, Maori Gaoqian further strengthened the armament force within the domain on the basis of his husband and wife Gao Tai, completed the modernization of the armament within the domain, and strengthened the coastal defense fortifications.
In addition, in the ever-changing era at the end of the curtain, Gao Qian's diplomatic ability was very good, and he was good at greeting, while accepting the orders of his father, he defended in places such as Edo Island, while the other half showed goodwill to the imperial court and repeatedly offered specialties and other items. (PS: the simple point is actually a two-sided bet)
Zober Cultural Hall
In 1868, after the defeat of the shogunate army at the Battle of Toba Fushimi, Māori Takakyo, who saw the current affairs, immediately expressed his deference to the new government.
In 1869, after the restoration of the manuscript, Maori Takato became the governor of the Zobo Domain.
In 1871, after the abolition of the prefecture, the Sabo Domain was renamed Sabo Prefecture, and was later incorporated into Oita Prefecture.
In 1876, Maori Gaoqian died at the age of 37, and the position of governor was inherited by his adopted son Maori Gaofan. Maori Takan was born from higo kuni Uto domain, was the second son of hosokawa Yukima, the lord of Uchi domain, and became the adopted son of Maori Takafumi because her titular uncle Hosokawa Mima (whose father Hosokawa Yukimasa inherited Uto domain as the adopted son of his elder brother Hosokawa Tatsunobu, so Hosokawa Tatsunobu's daughter Mimi was established as his uncle) became the adopted son of Maori Takanaga.
In 1884, the Chinese Order was promulgated, and Maori Gaofan was granted the title of viscount and included in the Chinese.
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Mr. Mori (1601-1871)
Sample Yanagama, City Lord, 20,000 stones