Tozama Daimyo 40 Ie "Make Gumi" No Shosei Jutsu (Gentosha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] The warring feudal lords who came under Tokugawa rule around the time of the Battle of Sekigahara chose to survive as "outsider" feudal lords. The Maeda clan, for example, struggled to marry the shogun's family, the Tsugaru clan implemented a major restructuring of 1,000 feudal warriors, and the Soma clan tried to increase the population by providing a "child allowance. In this way, the energy of some former warring feudal lords, who had endured the unreasonable demands of the shogunate and secretly accumulated national power, exploded in the Meiji Restoration and became the foundation of Japan's modernization. This is the 250-year history of 40 families of foreign feudal lords in Edo, a period of sorrow and despair.

関ヶ原の戦いに前後して、徳川支配下に入った戦国大名は、その後「外様」大名として生き抜く道を選択した。彼らはたびたび取り潰しや国替えの危機にさらされたが、たとえば前田家は将軍家との婚姻政策に奔走し、津軽家は藩士1000人の大リストラを断行、また相馬家は「子ども手当」で人口を増やそうとすることで乗り切る。こうして幕府の理不尽な要求に耐え抜き、密かに国力を蓄えた一部の元・戦国大名家のエネルギーが、明治維新で爆発し、日本近代化の礎となったのだ。外様大名40家、哀切と雌伏の江戸250年史。