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Fukuoka Domain (福岡藩, Fukuoka han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Chikuzen Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. The domain was also sometimes referred to as Chikuzen Domain, or as Kuroda Domain, after the ruling Kuroda family.
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In the han system, Fukuoka was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area. This was different from the feudalism of the West. With its rating of 473,000 koku, the domain was the fifth-largest in Japan, excluding the domains held by the Tokugawa-Matsudaira dynasty.
List of daimyo
The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain.
Kuroda clan, 1600-1868 (tozama; 502,000->412,000->433,000->473,000 koku)
- Nagamasa
- Tadayuki
- Mitsuyuki
- Tsunamasa
- Nobumasa
- Tsugutaka
- Haruyuki
- Harutaka
- Naritaka
- Narikiyo
- Nagahiro
- Nagatomo
- Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (briefly ruled domain as imperial governor in 1871)
Family tree
As Tsugutaka, the sixth lord, was without heirs, he adopted an heir from a branch of the Tokugawa family to continue the line: