 In a last move, the clan narrowly escaped attainder by the shogunate.Sakakibara Masamine, the 3rd Sakakibara "daimyō" of Himeji Domain, angered Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune by flaunting sumptuary edicts, and purchasing the freedom of Takao Daiyu, a famed courtesan from a Yoshiwara brothel for a tremendous sum of money.Yoshimune further punished Masamine by ordering the transfer of the clan from Himeji to Takada, which, although it had the same nominal "kokudaka", was remote and cold and had a portion of lands spread over a number of exclaves in Mutsu Province.