Kuse

Kuse lies south of Kyoto in the lowlands of Yamashiro, where waterways cross the plain towards the Yodo River. In 1623 the Tokugawa shogunate established the Yodo domain and Matsudaira Sadatsuna rebuilt its castle. The western part of Kuse came under the domain's authority, and in the early eighteenth century the Inaba family took possession, retaining the lordship for the rest of the Tokugawa period.