It was centered around Tannan jin'ya in what is now the city of Matsubara and was controlled by the fudai daimyō Takagi clan all of its history.
With holdings of 9000 koku scattered across Sagami, Musashi, Kazusa, Shimōsa, and Ōmi Province, he was ranked as a hatamoto.
This placed his kokudaka over the 10,000 koku mark requited to qualify as a daimyō, and his holdings were consolidated to 22 village in Kawachi Province,where he constructed a jin'ya.
During the tenure of the 6th daimyō, Takagi Masanobu,the domain received an exemption from the sankin kōtai requirement to travel to Edo on alternative years to attend the Shogun's court.
During the Bakumatsu period, the 12th daimyō, Takagi Masahiro was ordered to dispatch troops in 1866 to suppress a revolt which had arisen in tenryō territory in what is now Kashiwara.