Hijikata Katsuuji was a
Sengoku period samurai in the service of
Oda Nobunaga and subsequently
Toyotomi Hideyoshi and held fiefs with a
kokudaka of 10,000
koku in Komono,
Ise Province. However, in 1599 he was accused of complicity in a plot to assassinate
Tokugawa Ieyasu, and was dispossessed and exiled to
Hitachi-Ōta. He was pardoned before the
Battle of Sekigahara, where he distinguished himself in combat, and was reinstated to his former domains, with a 2000
koku increase. His successor, Hijikata Katsutaka, built a ''
jin'ya'' from which to rule the domain, laid out the foundations for the
castle town and invited merchants to populate it. The Hijikata clan continued to rule the territory until the
Meiji restoration. However, the domain's finances were always precarious, and with large expenses due to duties at Osaka and Kyoto imposed by the shogunate, coupled with poor harvests, the situation became critical by the time of Hijikata Yoshitane, the 9th
daimyō, who implemented
Sumptuary laws, irrigation work, and
speculation on rice futures in order to achieve financial reconstruction. He also founded the
domain academy "Reisawakan". Hijikata Katsuoki, the 10th
daimyō developed a higher value "brand rice" and Hijikata Katsuyoshi, the 11th
daimyō began the production of tea as a
cash crop. During the
Boshin War, although opinion in the domain was initially divided in support between the Shogunate and the Emperor, Hijikata Katsunaga, the 12th
daimyō, opted to support the new
Meiji government. Komono Domain, as with all other domains, was ended with the
abolition of the han system in 1871. ==Holdings at the end of the Edo period==