| Shibata Domain 新発田藩 | |
|---|---|
| under Tokugawa shogunate Japan | |
| 1598–1871 | |
| Capital | Shibata Castle |
| Area | |
| • Coordinates | 37°57′19.68″N 139°19′31.47″E / 37.9554667°N 139.3254083°E |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1598 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | part of Niigata Prefecture |
Shibata Domain (新発田藩, Shibata-han) was a tozama feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It is located in Echigo Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Shibata Castle, located in what is now the city of Shibata in Niigata Prefecture.[1] It was ruled for all of its history by the Mizoguchi clan.[2]
- ^ "Echigo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-7.
- ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Mizoguchi" at Noblaire du Japon.