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Hiroshima Domain
Origins
When the Mori were reduced to Choshu after Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu gave Aki and Bingo to Fukushima Masanori in 1600. In 1619 the shogunate dismissed Masanori for repairing the flood-damaged castle without permission, and transferred Asano Nagaakira to Hiroshima with about 426,000 koku.
Rule and society
The Asano ruled the domain until its abolition. Hiroshima, built on the delta of the Ota river, grew into a major castle town and port. The domain profited from rice, salt pans, oyster farming in Hiroshima Bay and paper, and controlled the shrine island of Itsukushima. The Shukkeien garden was laid out for Nagaakira from 1620.
Decline and legacy
Hiroshima served as a base for the shogunate's expeditions against neighbouring Choshu in the 1860s but sought mediation and joined the imperial side in 1868. After abolition in 1871 it became Hiroshima Prefecture.
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- Hiroshima Domain was part of Tokugawa Shogunate1603 CE – 1867 CE
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