 During the Boshin War, after some uncertainty, the clan sided with the imperial armies and the clan fought against the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei and in the Aizu War.Following the Meiji restoration, the final daimyō of Takeda Domain (and the 16th hereditary chieftain of the Sakakibara clan), Sakakibara Masataka was enabled with the title of viscount ("shishaku") under the "kazoku" peerage system.On his death the title passed to his adopted son, Sakakibara Masakazu (榊原政和; 1868-1927) followed by Sakakibara Masaharu (榊原政春 b.1911), who was a graduated of the law school of Tokyo Imperial University, member of the upper house of the Diet of Japan and who was married to a daughter of Duke Tokugawa Yoshihisa, the son of former Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu.