Kanō Domain

However, as Hidenobu sided with Ishida Mitsunari at the Battle of Sekigahara, his territory was confiscated by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

[2] Nobumasa's placement at Kanō was meant to act as a check against the potentially hostile lords of western Japan, who might have wanted to march eastward against Ieyasu.

Nobumasa retired in 1602, handing over the position of daimyō to his son Okudaira Tadamasa; however, he retained 40,000 of the domain's 100,000 koku as a "retirement fund", and continued to hold actual power, establishing a system of flood control and aiding in the setup of the castletown.

[1] The Nagai clan, from Iwatsuki Domain in Musashi Province, ruled from 1756 until the Meiji restoration, with a kokudaka reduced to 32,000 koku.

[2] After the Meiji restoration, Nagai Naokoto served as Domain governor until the abolition of the han system in 1871, and later received the kazoku peerage title of viscount.