Landholding Register

This document is a register listing the villages and the assessed agricultural yields (kokudaka), totaling 120,000 koku, which constituted the territories under the control of the Takamatsu Matsudaira family. It was issued together with a letter of enfeoffment (ryōchi ategaijō). While only Edo-period copies of the letter of enfeoffment have been handed down within the Matsudaira family, the original landholding register itself has been preserved.
The register records both the number of villages and the total assessed yield for each of the six districts whose entire territories fell under the domain’s control: Ōchi, Sangawa, Miki, Yamada, Kagawa and Aya. For Uta and Naka, the two districts where only parts of the districts were included in the domain, it lists the names of villages and their combined assessed yields.
The people who sent the document, Nagai Naotsune and Ogasawara Naganori, were daimyo who served as sōjaban, officials of the Tokugawa shogunate responsible for mediating communications between the shogun and the daimyo.