Takahashi Naotsugu, the younger brother of Tachibana Muneshige, was given 5,000 koku to Tsukuba County, Hitachi Province in 1614 and became a hatamoto. His eldest son, Tachibana Tanetsugu, moved to Miike in 1621, where he gained 10,000 koku of 5,000 koku in Miike County, Chikugo Province, which was his former territory, and the Miike Domain established the domain.
Coal mining began in 1738, the era of the 4th daimyo of the domain, Tachibana Tsuranaga , and became the foundation of the Miike Coal Mine, which continued until 1997.
The 6th daimyo of the domain, Tachibana Tanechika, was the head of the main house, the sojaban and the magistrate of the temple and shrine, and he flourished to Wakadoshiyori. However, he belonged to the anti-Matsudaira Sadanobu faction and was defeated in a political conflict, and in November 1805, he was dismissed for the charge of leaking secrets by the shogunate, and in December, he was forced to retire and was put under house under house casip. Therefore, Tachibana Taneyoshi, the 7th daimyo of the domain who succeeded Taneshu, was demoted to Shimotedo Domain in Mutsu Province in 1806.
After that, in September 1868, when he was the lord of the domain from Tanezen to Taneon, he moved the domain office to Miike again, and the Miike Domain was re-enstated.
In 1869, the Tachibana clan was ranked as a kazoku at the same time as the return of the hansho (adoral of the emperor). After becoming Miike Prefecture in the Haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures) in 1871, it was incorporated into Fukuoka Prefecture through Mizuma Prefecture.
The Tachibana clan was conferred a viscount by the peerage order in 1884.
[1] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[2] This was different from the feudalism of the West.
List of daimyōs
The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
