 The final "daimyō", Matsudaira Noritsune, took part in the Second Chōshū expedition, and was assigned to guard Osaka and Kyoto, but presided over domain deeply divided between pro- and anti- Shogunal factions.He surrendered to the new Meiji government during the Boshin War, after the defection of many junior samurai to the pro-Imperial cause.The domain had a population of 55,220 people in 13,039 households per the 1867 census, of whom 51,119 people were classed as farmers.