Representative of the Tozama Daimyo were the Kaga Domain of the Maeda clan, famous for the million koku of Kaga, the Satsuma Domain of the Shimazu clan, a family famous from the Kamakura period, the Sendai Domain of the Date clan, the Fukuoka Domain of the Kuroda clan, the Hiroshima Domain of the Asano clan, the Choshu Domain of the Mori clan, the Yonezawa Domain of the Uesugi clan, the Saga Domain of the Nabeshima clan, the Kumamoto Domain of the Hosokawa clan, the Okayama and Tottori Domains of the Ikeda clan, the Tokushima Domain of the Hachisuka clan, the Tosa Domain of the Tosa Yamauchi clan, and the Akita Domain of the Satake clan.
代表的な外様大名としては、加賀百万石として有名な前田氏の加賀藩、鎌倉時代以来の名家である島津氏の薩摩藩や伊達氏の仙台藩、黒田氏の福岡藩、浅野氏の広島藩、毛利氏の長州藩、上杉氏の米沢藩、鍋島氏の佐賀藩、細川氏の熊本藩、池田氏の岡山藩と鳥取藩、蜂須賀氏の徳島藩、土佐山内氏の土佐藩、佐竹氏の秋田藩といった国主が多い。