 He participated in the attack on Nihonmatsu Domain and was awarded with 9300 "koku" in 1869 and was named imperial governor by the new Meiji government, He retired due to ill-health a few months later.He died in 1872.

 was the 7th (and final) "daimyō" of Moriyama Domain.He was the 22nd son of Tokugawa Nariaki of Mito Domain and thus was a half-brother to Shogun Tokugawa Yorinobu, He was adopted as heir to the childless Matsudaira Yorinori in 1869, and the domain was transferred to Matsukawa in Hitachi Province by the Meiji government the same year.