When Naomori SAKAZAKI, the lord of Tsuwano Domain in Iwami Province, committed a crime and was punished by being deprived of his fief in 1617, Masanori was ordered to change the territory to Tsuwano to take over him.
元和3年（1617年）、石見津和野藩主だった坂崎直盛が凶行のために改易されると、その後を受けて津和野への移封を命じられた。