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Remnants of moat of Sakura Castle Sakura Domain (佐倉藩 Sakura-han was a Japanese domain of the Edo period , located in Shimōsa Province (modern-day Chiba Prefecture ), Japan . It was centered on Sakura Castle in what is now part of the city of Sakura . It was ruled for most of its history by the Hotta clan .
Sakura Domain was originally created for Takeda Tadateru , a son of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1593, near the site of an ancient castle of the Chiba clan , which had fallen into ruins in the early Sengoku period . The domain subsequently passed through a bewildering number of hands during the 1600s, before coming under the control of the Hotta clan in the mid-18th century. During the Bakumatsu period , Hotta Masayoshi was one of the major proponents of rangaku and an ending to the country’s national isolation policy . He was one of the signers of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States. His son, Hotta Masatomo was a key supporter of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early stages of the Boshin War . After the Meiji Restoration , he was pardoned, and eventually made a count (hakushaku ) in the kazoku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Takeda Nobuyoshi 武田信吉
1593–1602
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40,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Matsudaira Tadateru 松平忠輝
1602–1603
Sakone-no-shosho
Lower 4th (従四位下)
50,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Ogasawara Yoshitsugu 小笠原吉次
1603–1608
Izumi-no-kami
Lower 5th (従五位下)
22,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Doi Toshikatsu 土井利勝
1608–1633
大炊頭 Jiju
Lower 4th (従四位下)
32,000 – 142,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Ishikawa Tadafusa 石川忠総
1633–1634
Tonomo-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
70,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Matsudaira Ienobu (松平家信 1634-1638
Kii-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
40,000 koku
2
Matsudaira Ienobu (松平康信 1638–1640
Wakasa-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
40,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Hotta Masamori (堀田正盛 1642-1651
Dewa-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
110,000 koku
2
Hotta Masanobu (堀田正信 1651–1660
Kozuke-no-suke
Lower 5th (従五位下)
110,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Matsudaira Norihisa (松平乗久 1661–1678
Izumi-no-kami
Lower 4th (従五位下)
60,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Ōkubo Tadatomo (松平乗久 1678–1686
Kaga-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
83,000 – 93,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Toda Tadamasa (戸田 忠昌 1686–1699
Yamashiro-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
61,000 – 71,000 koku
1
Toda Tadazane (戸田忠真 1699–1701
Yamashiro-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
71,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Inaba Masamichi (稲葉正往 1701–1707
Tango-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
102,000 koku
2
Inaba Masatomo (稲葉正知 1707–1723
Tango-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
102,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Matsudaira Norisato (松平乗邑 1723–1745
Izumi-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
60,000 koku
2
Matsudaira Norisuke (松平乗祐 1745–1746
Izumi-no-kami
Lower 5th (従五位下)
60,000 koku
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Name
Tenure
Courtesy title
Court Rank
revenues
1
Hotta Masasuke (堀田正亮 1746–1761
Sagami-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
12,000 koku
2
Hotta Masanari (堀田正順 1761–1805
Sagami-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
12,000 koku
3
Hotta Masatoki (堀田正時 1805–1811
Sagami-no-kami
Lower 5th (従五位下)
12,000 koku
4
Hotta Masachika (堀田正愛 1811–1824
Sagami-no-kami
Lower 5th (従五位下)
12,000 koku
5
Hotta Masayoshi (堀田正睦 1825–1859
Sagami-no-kami
Lower 4th (従四位下)
10,000 koku
6
Hotta Masatomo (堀田正倫 1859–1871
Buzen-no-kami
Lower 5th (従五位下)
10,000 koku
References
Further reading
Bolitho, Harold (1974). Treasures among men; the fudai daimyo in Tokugawa Japan . New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kodama Kōta 児玉幸多 , Kitajima Masamoto 北島正元 (1966). Kantō no shohan 関東の諸藩. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha. 
Takeda clan (shimpan) 1593-1602
Ogasawara clan (fudai) 1603-1608
Ishikawa clan (fudai) 1633-1634
Matsudaira (Katahara) clan (fudai) 1634-1640
Hotta clan (fudai) 1642-1640
Matsudaira clan (fudai) 1661-1678
Ōkubo clan (fudai) 1678-1686
Inaba clan (fudai) 1701-1723