preventing pro-Tokugawa Iyo-Yoshida Domain from taking any action, and towards persuading Date Yoshikuni, the head of the pro-Tokugawa Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei to surrender. Under the Meiji government, Munenari served as Foreign Secretary, and in April 1871 was appointed ambassador plenipotentiary to conclude the Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty. Later that year, with the abolition of the han system, Uwajima Domain became Uwajima Prefecture, which later became part of Ehime Prefecture. in 1884, Date Munenari became a marquess in the kazoku peerage. This was a higher title than the Sendai branch of the clan, but Uwajima played only a minor role in the Meiji government as it had not participated in Boshin War and few of its retainers left the domain for Tokyo. Holdings at the end of the Edo period Unlike most domains in the han system, which consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields, Uwajima Domain was a single unified holding. Iyo Province 163 villages in Uwa District List of daimyō {| class=wikitable ! #||Name || Tenure || Courtesy title || Court Rank || kokudaka |- |colspan=6| Tomita clan, 1608-1613 (Tozama) |- ||1||||1608 - 1613||Shinano-no-kami (信濃守)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||120,000 koku |- |colspan=6| tenryō 1613-1614 |- |colspan=6| Date clan, 1614-1871 (Tozama) |- ||1||||1614 - 1657||Totomi-no-kami (遠江守); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||100,000 koku |- ||2||||1657 - 1693||Totomi-no-kami (遠江守); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||70,000 koku |- ||3||||1693 - 1711||Kii-no-kami (紀伊守); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||70,000 ->100,000 koku |- |4||||1711 - 1735||Totomi-no-kami (遠江守)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||100,000 koku |- ||5||||1735 - 1794|||Sakone-no-chūjo (左近衛権少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||100,000 koku |- ||6||||1794 - 1824||Ukone-no-chūjo (右近衛権少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||100,000 koku |- ||7||||1824 - 1844||Sakone-no-chūjo (左近衛権少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||100,000 koku |- ||8||||1844 - 1858||Sakone-no-chūjo (左近衛権少将); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Upper Grade (従四位上)||100,000 koku |- ||9||||1858 - 1871||Totomi-no-kami (遠江守)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||100,000 koku |- |- |} See also List of Han Abolition of the han system References Domains of Japan History of Ehime Prefecture Iyo Province Shikoku region Date clan 1608 establishments in Japan States and territories established in 1608 1871 disestablishments in Japan States and territories disestablished in 1871