Despite the fact that Naomasa TAGA, the eighth head of the family, received the territory worth 5,000 koku (approximately 900,000 liters of crop yields), he retired in order to concentrate on tea ceremony when he became the head.
8代多賀直昌は5000石を賜っていたが、宗家継承に際し隠居して茶道に専念した。