Mikkaichi Domain

The domain was centered at Mikkaichi Jin'ya, located in what is now part of the city of Shibata in Niigata Prefecture.

Tochichika turned the domain over to his brother after only three months, and although the Yanagisawa clan remained in control until the Meiji restoration, they preferred to reside in Edo and rely on the collection of revenues as absentee landlords.

As a result, the finances of the domain were perpetually in a state of bankruptcy, and belated efforts to remedy the situation through reforms in 1843 failed.

Under the new Meiji government, Yanagisawa Noritada was given the kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount).

[2] As with most domains in the han system, Mikkaichi Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.

He was received in audience by Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi at the age of five, and was permitted to take the "Matsudaira" name as an honor in 1701.

His wife was a daughter of Itakura Katsumasa of Bitchū-Matsuyama Domain, but had no heir.

He was received in formal audience by Shogun Tokugawa Ienari in 1825, and became daimyō on the retirement of his father-in-law in 1826.

By the time of his tenure, the domain was very deeply in debt and was forced to borrow 2000 ryō at very high rates of interest.

With the start of the Boshin War, he quickly joined the imperial side and attached his forces to the army of Prince Komatsu Akihito.

Under the Meiji government, he served as imperial governor until the abolition of the han system in 1871.