Matsuoka Domain

Matsuoka Domain
松岡藩
Matsuoka-han
Han of Japan
1602–1871
Oyashiki St of the former Matsuoka Jōkamachi
Mon of the Nakayama of
Mon of the Nakayama
CapitalMatsuoka Castle
Area
 • Coordinates36°44′25″N 140°42′23″E / 36.74028°N 140.70639°E / 36.74028; 140.70639
Government
Daimyō 
• 1602-1622
Tozawa Masamori (first)
• 1861–1871
Nakayama Nobuaki (last)
Historical eraEdo period
• Establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate
1602
1871
Contained within
 • ProvinceHitachi Province
Today part ofIbaraki Prefecture
Matsuoka Elementary School is built on the site of Matsuoka Castle, administrative headquarters of Hitachi-Matsuoka Domain

Matsuoka Domain (松岡藩, Matsuoka-han), also known as Hitachi-Matsuoka Domain (常陸松岡藩, Hitachi-Matsuoka-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Hitachi Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Matsuoka Castle in what is now the city of Takahagi, Ibaraki. With the exception of its first twenty years, was ruled by the Nakayama clan.