 The domain switched sides to the pro-Imperial forces in June 1869.The new Meiji government seized the domain, and exiled Mizuno Tadahiro to a newly created 50,000 "koku" Asahiyama Domain in Ōmi Province in 1870.With the abolition of the han system in July 1871, the former Yamagata Domain became the nucleus of the new Yamagata Prefecture.