At the start of the Sengoku period, the Miyake were based in northern Mikawa Province, and were hereditary enemies to the neighboring Matsudaira clan.

Masasada's son Yasusada (1544–1615) served as a general in the armies of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

After the creation of the Tokugawa shogunate, he was appointed daimyō of Koromo Domain, a 10,000 koku fief in Mikawa Province in 1604.

[1] The Miyake moved to Tahara Domain (12,000 koku) in southern Mikawa Province in 1664, where they remained until the Meiji Restoration.

[1] The final daimyō of Tahara Domain, Miyake Yasuyoshi (1831–1895), served as guji to the Kunōzan Tōshō-gū under the Meiji government.