[1][2][3] Takahashi Naotsugu, the younger brother of Tachibana Muneshige, was awarded a 5,000 koku fief in Tsukuba District, Hitachi Province in 1614 and became a hatamoto.

His eldest son, Tachibana Tanetsugu, recovered 5,000 koku of the clan's former territory in Miike District, Chikugo Province, which put him over the threshold to become a daimyō in 1621.

The 6th daimyō, Tachibana Tanechika, served in various positions in the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate, including Ōbangashira, Sōshaban and Jisha-bugyō, eventually becoming a Wakadoshiyori.

However, he belonged to the anti-Matsudaira Sadanobu faction and was defeated in a political conflict, and in November 1805, he was dismissed for the charge of leaking secrets by the shogunate, and in December, he was forced to retire and was put under house arrest.

In 1868, during the final years of the Bakumatsu period, he was appointed Gaikoku-bugyō and then a Rōjū; however, by this time the Boshin War had started and after hearing of the defeat of the Shogunate forces at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, he immediately resigned his positions.