Tottori Domain
…greatly from the Tenpō famine from 1833 to 1837. During the Bakumatsu period, the 12th daimyō, Ikeda Yoshinori, was the older brother of the 15th Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu and had a difficult position between loyalty to the shogunate and the growing forces for the Meiji restoration. Within the domain, conflicts between…