The family ruled a branch domain of the Higo Kumamoto Domain known as the Higo Shinden Domain (an area of land that had been newly made into a rice field with a yield of more than 10,000 koku) of the Kumamoto Domain, and later ruled the Takase Domain, which yielded 35,000 koku.
肥後熊本藩の支藩・熊本藩肥後新田藩、のち高瀬藩3万5千石の藩主。