Murakami Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Echigo Province, Japan. It was centered on Murakami Castle in what is now the city of Murakami, Niigata.
site of the donjon of Murakami Castle, administrative center of Murakami Domain
Echigo Province was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōzuke, Shinano, and Etchū Provinces. It corresponds today to Niigata Prefecture, minus the island of Sado.
Hiroshige ukiyo-e " Echigo " in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting Oyashirazu cliffs.