Nagashima Domain

The domain was centered at Nagashima Castle, located in what is now the city of Kuwana in Mie Prefecture.

During the Sengoku period, the Nagashima area was a stronghold of the Ikkō-ikki movement and became infamous as the location of a massacre of 20,000 Ikkō followers by the forces of Oda Nobunaga in 1574.

However, he died without heir in 1643, and the domain reverted to tenryō status under the direct control of the shogunate.

The domain suffered greatly at this time due to massive flooding, crop failures, and peasant uprisings over high taxation.

Mashiyama Masanao was ordered to send troops in the Hokuetsu campaign and against the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei, but the new Meiji government remained suspicious of his loyalties, and Sekihōtai leader Sagara Sōzō extorted the domain of 3000 ryō.