However, the bakufu, with the aim of reducing the strength of the Echizen family, ordered Mitsunaga to relocate by exchanging his territory with that of Tadamasa MATSUDAIRA, the lord of the Takada domain (a younger brother of Tadanao and an adopted child of Eisho-in).
しかし、越前家の力を削ぎたい幕府の命令により、高田藩主松平忠昌（忠直弟・英勝院の養子）と領知を交換する形で転封。