Later, they faced a crisis of having no heir, and they were demoted to 150,000 koku (in reality 330,000), but they maintained their position as daimyo until the end of Edo Shogunate.
のち無嗣の危機に瀕したこともあり15万石（実高33万石）に減知されたが、幕末まで大名としての地位を維持した。