Ashimori Domain

Ashimori Domain
足守藩
Domain of Japan
1601–1871
Site of Ashimori jin'ya
Mon of the Kinoshita clan
CapitalAshimori jin'ya
Area
  Coordinates34°38′34.1″N 133°50′57″E / 34.642806°N 133.84917°E / 34.642806; 133.84917
Historical eraEdo period
 Established
1601
1871
Contained within
  ProvinceBitchū Province
Today part ofOkayama Prefecture
Location of Ashimori jin'ya
Ashimori Domain (Japan)

Ashimori Domain (足守藩, Ashimori-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now central Okayama Prefecture. It controlled a small portion of eastern Bitchū Province and was centered around Ashimori jin'ya in what is now Kita-ku, Okayama. It was ruled for most its history by a branch of the Kinoshita clan. It was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 and is now part of Okayama Prefecture. Rangaku scholar Ogata Kōan, who founded Tekijuku academy, the predecessor of Osaka University was from Ashimori Domain.