Kurokawa Domain
Encyclopedia
The was a Japanese domain
of the Edo period
, located in Echigo Province
. It was ruled by the Yanagisawa clan for the entirety of its history.
This ryuha was founded by yamabushi Kurokawa Yoshiro.
Han (Japan)
The or domain was the name of the estate belonging to a warrior in Japan after the 17th century. The fiefs of the daimyos of the samurai class of Japan during the Edo period were called han.-Edo period:...
of the Edo period
Edo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
, located in Echigo Province
Echigo Province
was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It was sometimes called , with Echizen and Etchū Provinces. Today the area is part of Niigata Prefecture, which also includes the island which was the old Sado Province. This province was the northernmost part of the...
. It was ruled by the Yanagisawa clan for the entirety of its history.
List of lords
- Yanagisawa clan (FudaiFudaiwas a class of daimyo who were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa in Edo period Japan. It was primarily the fudai who filled the ranks of the Tokugawa administration.-Origins:...
; 10,000 kokuKokuThe is a Japanese unit of volume, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres. The koku was originally defined as a quantity of rice, historically defined as enough rice to feed one person for one year...
)
- Tsunetaka
- Satozumi
- Satoakira
- Yasutaka
- Nobutō
- Mitsuhi
- Mitsuteru
- Mitsukuni
Ninjutsu
The ninjas Kurokawashu of the Koga-ryu Kurokawa emerged in Ha Han.This ryuha was founded by yamabushi Kurokawa Yoshiro.