Shibata Domain

He distinguished himself at a number of battles and was rewarded with a 60,000 koku holding in Echigo Province.

This area, which stretched from eastern Niigata City, through Agano, Kamo and Minamikanbara District was excellent rice land, and the actual revenues of the domain were far in excess of its official kokudaka.

The 8th daimyō, Mizoguchi Naoyasu established a Han school and invited noted gardeners from Edo and Kyoto as part of his rebuilding of the castle town.

During the Boshin War, the 12th daimyō, Mizoguchi Naomasa joined the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei; however, there was extensive opposition within the domain, and he was forced to quickly switch sides to the imperial cause.

Under the new Meiji government, Mizoguchi Naomasa was given the kazoku peerage title of hakushaku (count),[3] and later served as a member of the House of Peers As with most domains in the han system, Shibata Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.