Draft:Akizuki Domain



Akizuki Domain (秋月藩) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It a sub-domain of Fukuoka Domain, established when Kuroda Nagaoki, the third son of Kuroda Nagamasa, divided his holdings by 50,000 koku to establish a cadet branch of the clan.

History
Akizuki Domain was based at the Akizuki Jin'ya in what is now part of the city of Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture. Although the domain lacked a castle, its daimyō was accorded the status of castellan.

Haruhime, the daughter of the 4th daimyō Kuroda Nagasada, married into the Akizuki clan, the former rulers of the area in the late Sengoku period. Haruhime's second son was adopted by the Yonezawa Domain and became Uesugi Takayama (a famous ruler who worked on financial reconstruction). During the Kan'ei era, the domain exchanged part of its holdings Geza County for part of Honami County and Yasu County held by Fukuoka Domain; however, this was done without official approval from the shogunate (according to one theory, the Fukuoka Domain relieved the territory of the senior vassal attached to the Akizuki Domain. It is also said that it is because it was done). In addition, because the Fukuoka Domain refused to let go of Amagi-juku, a transportation point that was a stone's throw away from Akizuki Jin'ya, the boundary line between Akizuki and Fukuoka was a complicated line.

The Akizuki Domain became Akizuki Prefecture due to the abolition of the han system in July 1871, and then it incorporated into Fukuoka Prefecture. The former domain was the center of the Akizuki rebellion in 1876, when former samurai of the domain, opposed to the Westernization of Japan and loss of their class privileges after the Meiji Restoration, launched an uprising inspired by the failed Shinpūren rebellion three days earlier. The Akizuki rebels attacked local police before being suppressed by the Imperial Japanese Army, and the leaders of the rebellion committed suicide or were executed. The rebellion was one of a number of "shizoku uprisings" which took place in Kyūshū and western Honshu during the early Meiji period.

In 1884, Kuroda Naganori, the final daimyō of the clan, was elevated to the kazoku peerage with the title of viscount.

List of daimyō

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! #||Name || Tenure || Courtesy title || Court Rank || kokudaka
 * colspan=6| Kuroda Fuji (No background and Black color drawing).svg Kuroda clan, 1623 - 1871 (Tozama daimyō)
 * 1||Kuroda Nagaoki (黒田長興)||1623–1665|| Kai-no-kami (甲斐守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 2||Kuroda Nagashige (黒田長重)||1665–1710||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 3||Kuroda Naganori (黒田長軌)||1710–1715||Oki-no-kami (隠岐守守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 4||Kuroda Nagasada (黒田長貞)||1715–1754||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 5||Kuroda Nagakuni (黒田長邦)||1754–1762||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 6||Kuroda Nagayoshi (黒田長恵)||1762–1774|| Kai-no-kami (甲斐守) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 7||Kuroda Nagakata (黒田長堅)||1774–1784|| -none- ||-none- ||50,000 koku
 * 8||Kuroda Naganobu (黒田長舒)||1785–1807|| Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 9||Kuroda Nagatsugu (黒田長韶)||1808–1830|| Hyōgo-no-kami (兵庫頭) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 10||Kuroda Nagamoto (黒田長元)||1830–1860||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 11||Kuroda Nagayoshi (黒田長義)||1860–1862||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 12||Kuroda Naganori (黒田長徳)||1862–1871||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * }
 * 7||Kuroda Nagakata (黒田長堅)||1774–1784|| -none- ||-none- ||50,000 koku
 * 8||Kuroda Naganobu (黒田長舒)||1785–1807|| Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 9||Kuroda Nagatsugu (黒田長韶)||1808–1830|| Hyōgo-no-kami (兵庫頭) ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 10||Kuroda Nagamoto (黒田長元)||1830–1860||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 11||Kuroda Nagayoshi (黒田長義)||1860–1862||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 12||Kuroda Naganori (黒田長徳)||1862–1871||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * }
 * 10||Kuroda Nagamoto (黒田長元)||1830–1860||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 11||Kuroda Nagayoshi (黒田長義)||1860–1862||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * 12||Kuroda Naganori (黒田長徳)||1862–1871||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * }
 * 12||Kuroda Naganori (黒田長徳)||1862–1871||Kai-no-kami (甲斐守)  ||Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下) ||50,000 koku
 * }
 * }