Iwakitaira Castle (磐城平城, Iwakitaira-jō) is a hilltop-style Japanese castle located in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of...

Iwakitaira Domain (磐城平藩, Iwakitaira-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan., based at Iwakitaira Castle in southern...

daimyō of Iwakitaira Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate, with an assessed kokudaka of 100,000 koku and constructed Iwakitaira Castle. The domain...

during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871. The Sendai Domain was based at Aoba Castle in Mutsu Province, in the modern city of Sendai, located in the Tōhoku region...

000 to 30,000, in a rapid strike against forces defending Aizuwakamatsu Castle. Heading southwest from Nihonmatsu, Itagaki then took a route across Bonari...

Matsumae Domain of Ezo (modern-day Hokkaidō). Headquartered at Shiroishi Castle, the alliance's nominal head was Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, the onetime...

000 koku. However, in June 1869, the Sakai were ordered to relocate to Iwakitaira Domain. This move was strongly protested by the people of the domain,...

Kōfu Castle on March 24 upon orders to suppress the uprisings there. But while on the way there, they received news on March 28 that the Kōfu Castle was...

1871) was a late-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 5th daimyō of Iwakitaira Domain in the Tōhoku region of Japan, and the 10th hereditary chieftain...

(陸奥守). His poetic name was Rakuzan-kō (楽山公) Yoshikuni was born at Aoba Castle in Sendai, the second son of the 11th-generation daimyō Date Nariyoshi....

Although styled with the honorific of "castle", the clan residence was in fact a jin'ya, or fortified house. Tendō Castle was built in 1375 by Mogami Yorinao...

and refused to submit to the new government even after the fall of Edo Castle to the imperial armies. With the assistance of two Prussian businessmen...

February 1868, he was pressured by his more powerful neighbors (including Iwakitaira Domain and Sendai Domain into joining the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. The Satchō...

Province (modern-day Niigata Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Murakami Castle in what is now the city of Murakami, Niigata. During the Heian period, the...

Ichinoseki Yashima Morioka Miharu Kubota Hirosaki Moriyama Shinjō Hachinohe Iwakitaira Matsumae Honjō Izumi Shimotedo Tendō Nagaoka Shibata Murakami Muramatsu...

initially known as Yumoto Domain (湯本藩, Yumoto-han) In 1622, the 70,000 koku Iwakitaira Domain was assigned to Naitō Masanaga. In 1670, his son and 2nd daimyō...

District of what is now Akita Prefecture. The domain was centered at Morioka Castle in the city of Morioka. For most of its history, Morioka Domain had an official...

located in Echigo Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Nagaoka Castle, located in what is now part of the city of Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture...

000→50,000; 1711–1756 (transfer to Iwakitaira Domain) Nagai clan: 32,000; 1711–1871 Iwamura Domain Iwamura Castle Ogyū-Matsudaira clan: 20,000; 1601–1638...

modern-day city of Iwaki, Fukushima. In 1622, Torii Tadamasa, daimyō of Iwakitaira Domain was transferred to Yamagata Domain, and his place was taken by...

Gamō Ujisato, and renamed the castle "Fukushima Castle". In 1600, the Battle of Matsukawa took place outside the castle. Following the establishment of...

Honshū. The domain was centered at Muramatsu Jin'ya (later renamed Muramatsu Castle), located in what is now part of the city of Gosen in Niigata Prefecture...

Ichinoseki Yashima Morioka Miharu Kubota Hirosaki Moriyama Shinjō Hachinohe Iwakitaira Matsumae Honjō Izumi Shimotedo Tendō Nagaoka Shibata Murakami Muramatsu...

and Lordship in Early Modern Japan, p. 222. "Echigo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-7. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906)...

February 1868, he was pressured by his more powerful neighbors (including Iwakitaira Domain and Sendai Domain) into joining the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. The Satchō...

Ichinoseki Yashima Morioka Miharu Kubota Hirosaki Moriyama Shinjō Hachinohe Iwakitaira Matsumae Honjō Izumi Shimotedo Tendō Nagaoka Shibata Murakami Muramatsu...

under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was based at Miharu Castle in southern Mutsu Province in what is now part of modern-day Miharu, Fukushima...

Province Japan and ruled by the Tozawa clan. It was centered on Shinjō Castle in what is now the city of Shinjō, Yamagata and occupied all of what is...

Mutsu Province, in northern Honshū. The domain was centered at Hirosaki Castle, located in the center of what is now the city of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture...

Province (modern-day Akita Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Kubota Castle in what is now the city of Akita and was thus also known as the Akita Domain...