It was centered around Yanagimoto jin'ya in what is now the city of Tenri, Nara and was ruled by the tozama daimyō Oda clan for all of its history.

Since he left the Toyotomi side just before the Osaka summer campaign, he was not charged with any crime after the war.

As he had no heir, Yanagimoto Domain faced the possibility of attainder, but the chief retainers were quickly reported that Oda Hidechika died of illness and his younger brother Oda Narizumi had been adopted as heir.. Around the middle of the Edo period, the financial difficulties of the domain became increasingly apparent.

Furthermore, in the latter half of the Edo period, the Yanagimoto residence was completely destroyed by fire in 1830, when the domain's finances were already in dire straits.

On December 27, 1852, he was elevated in is status to that of a "castle-holding daimyō, the first member of his famous clan to recover this title since Nobunaga.