徳川幕府が「絶対に潰したかった」のに潰せなかった大名ベスト5

The Tokugawa shogunate ruled for 260 years. Ostensibly, all daimyo were incorporated as vassals of the shogun. However, the reality was far more complex. There were certainly families that the shogunate desperately wanted to eliminate, constantly seeking an opportunity to do so. A family of traitors who had achieved independence from their vassal status. A small northern domain that monopolized trade in Ezo (Hokkaido). A bloodline of a military genius that persisted even after being reduced from 1.2 million koku to 150,000 koku. A small Tsushima domain that single-handedly handled diplomacy with Korea, whose destruction would have brought about the collapse of international relations. And a powerful southern domain that, even after the Battle of Sekigahara, which the shogunate assembled a 30,000-strong punitive force to ultimately fail to issue an attack order against. Military power, diplomatic monopoly, bloodline, geography, and maneuvering— Each of these factors became a "wall" preventing the shogunate from destroying its domain, allowing these five families to survive. 5th Place: Tsugaru (Hirosaki) Clan – A small domain that maintained its independence from Nanbu through skillful Edo diplomacy. 4th Place: Matsumae Clan – A geographical necessity that made it irreplaceable, as it monopolized the management of Ezo (Hokkaido). 3rd Place: Yonezawa Uesugi Clan – Even after being reduced from 1.2 million koku to 150,000 koku, the bloodline of Kenshin remained. 2nd Place: Tsushima So Clan – A formidable wall that monopolized diplomacy with Korea, whose destruction would have collapsed international relations. 1st Place: Satsuma Shimazu Clan – A powerful southern force that even a 30,000-strong punitive force could not order to attack. And then, 260 years later, in the fourth year of Keio (1868), Satsuma, which the shogunate had never been able to destroy, joined forces with Choshu to overthrow the Edo shogunate at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi. Even in the era of the Tokugawa, who boasted absolute power, there was a wall that could never be destroyed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ About the Narration The narration on this channel is produced using the real voices of professional narrators. We do not use synthesized or AI voices. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #TokugawaShogunate #Dispossession #EdoPeriod #JapaneseHistory #In-depthHistoryTravel