[2] For over 250 years, the Owari family ruled Owari Domain, the area surrounding present day Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, using Nagoya Castle as its main base.

Despite having seniority of the Tokugawa clan, there were no shōguns that came from the Owari-Tokugawa family throughout the Edo period.

[6] The main patrillineal descent of Yoshinao, however, became extinct in 1800 with the death of the 9th family head, Tokugawa Munechika, who outlived his two only sons and four heirs he adopted.

Starting in the Edo period it became the Bodaiji of the family, with numerous heads of the clan cremated there.

[13] The family branch was the largest owner of land due to its senior position within the Shogunate.