 The strategic Kuwana Domain was then assigned to Ieyasu’s half-brother, Hisamatsu Sadakatsu, whose descendants ruled until they were transferred to Takada Domain in Echigo Province in 1710, and their place taken by the Okudaira branch of the Matsudaira clan, who ruled to 1823, when a branch of the Hisamatsu returned to Kuwana from Shirakawa Domain in Mutsu Province.The Hisamatsu continued to rule Kuwana until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.Matsudaira Sadaaki, the next-to-last daimyō of Kuwana served as the last "Kyoto shoshidai" and supported his brother, Matsudaira Katamori, daimyō of Aizu Domain.