sentences:  During the Bakumatsu period, the eighth (and final) "daimyō", Nishio Tadaatsu, initially attempted to remain neutral, but later contributed his forces to the imperial armies.In February 1869, he was transferred by the new Meiji government to the short-lived Hanabusa Domain in Awa Province and Yokosuka Domain was absorbed into the new Shizuoka Domain created for retired ex-Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu..