Yoshida Domain
After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Yoshida Castle became the center of Yoshida Domain, a feudal domain that occupied a strategic position on the Tōkaidō (road) between Edo and Nagoya. The domain was assigned to several "fudai daimyō" clans until the Matsudaira (Nagasawa-Ōkōchi) clan took possession in 1752; they remained in residence at Yoshida until the Meiji Restoration. The final "daimyō" of Yoshida, Matsudaira Nobuhisa, surrendered the castle without resistance to the Meiji government in 1868. The castle was turned over to the fledgling Imperial Japanese Army in 1871 but largely was destroyed in a fire in 1873.