affair with Ukita Samon, and the outraged Sakazaki Naomori ordered one of his vassals to kill the page. Instead, the vassal was killed, and Ukita Samon fled to Tomita Nobutaka for sanctuary. Nobutaka refused to turn Samon over to Sakazaki Naomori, which led to armed conflict and Naomori filed an appeal to the Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and retired shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu for redress. Ukita Samon meanwhile fled to Kato Kiyomasa in Kumamoto, and then to Takahashi Mototane in Nobeoka. In 1613, the issue was brought to trial before the shogunate court, which ruled in favor of Sakazaki Naomori. Nobutaka and Mototane were deprived of them domains, and Nobutaka was sent to exile in Iwakidaira Domain, where his descendants were reduced to hatamoto status and Uwajima came under direct control of the shogunate. In 1614, Date Hidemune was awarded the 100,000 koku Uwajima Domain by Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, and moved into Uwajima Castle the following year. Hidemune was the illegitimate eldest son of Date Masamune who had been raised by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but who sided loyally with the Tokugawa clan at the Siege of Osaka. Strictly speaking, this establishment was not a branch domain of Sendai Domain, but was regarded as a completely independent domain, although this status was frequently disputed by Sendai. In 1657, Hidemune retired, making his son Munetoshi is successor, but splitting the domain. Munetoshi had only 70,000 koku, and his younger brother Date Munezumi was given 30,000 koku and allowed to establish a cadet branch of the clan and subsidiary domain called Iyo-Yoshida Domain. Munetoshi's tenure lasted for 36 years, and became a model for later generations; however, he had to contend with droughts, tight finances, floods, large fires, and boundary disputes with the Tosa and Iyo-Yoshida domains. In 1688, a five-year plan was drawn up, and in November 1693, Munetoshi handed over the domain to his son-in-law, Date Muneyoshi and retired. In 1696, the domain was officially able to restore its official kokudaka to 100,000 koku through development of new rice lands; however, the shogunate forced the domain to reconstruct the Yushima Seido in Edo, adding to its expenses. In 1711, Munetoki died and his third son, Muratoshi, became the fourth daimyō. During this period, droughts, famines, and floods continued, leading to a variety of reforms, including the issuance of paper currency, relief for victims, tree planting, civil engineering projects as emergency employment measures for refugees,