When he was granted an audience to Tsunayoshi TOKUGAWA, the Fifth Seii Taishogun, at the age of 14 in 1697, he was given Nyu-gun County in Echizen Province with 30,000 koku of rice produced annually, and became lord of Kazurano Domain.
元禄10年（1697年）、14歳で第5代征夷大将軍・徳川綱吉に拝謁し、越前国丹生郡に3万石を賜り、葛野藩主となる。