 Matsudaira Yoriyuki, the last "daimyō" of Moriyama, was succeeded by Matsudaira Nobunori, the adopted former lord of Aizu who had cut his familial ties to Matsudaira Katamori as imperial governor of Matsukawa..

As with most domains in the han system, Moriyama Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned "kokudaka", based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.was the 1st "daimyō" of Nukada Domain in Hitachi Province.He was the fourth son of Tokugawa Narifusa of Mito Domain and was thus a grandson of Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu.