Kagekatsu had hardly governed the territory because he had been just transferred to the Aizu domain yielding 1,200,000-koku (a unit of volume of rice) from the Kasugayama-jo Castle in Echigo Province, early in the previous year under the order from Hideyoshi. 景勝は前年初めに秀吉の命により越後国春日山城から会津領120万石へ国替えになったばかりであり、領内統治をほとんど施していない状況であった。 |