There was a incident wherein Naonaga NAGAI, the second-generation lord who had become a shoshaban (a middleman between attendants to the shogun), was killed in 1680 by Tadakatsu NAITO, the lord of the Toba domain of Shima Province, who became raving mad when the funeral of the family head of the house of the fourth-generation Tokugawa shogun, Ietsuna TOKUGAWA, was held at Zojo-ji Temple.
奏者番となった第2代藩主・永井尚長は延宝8年（1680年）、第4代徳川将軍家・徳川家綱の葬儀が増上寺で行われた際、乱心した志摩国鳥羽藩主・内藤忠勝に殺害されるという事件が起こった。