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The Endō clan ruled the 24,000 ''[[koku]]'' [[Gujō Domain]] in [[Mino Province]] from the start of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. On the death of Endō Tsuneharu, the retainers of the clan were divided by an ''[[O-Ie Sōdō]]'' over the succession, and when seven-year old Endō Tsuneharu died in 1693, the domain was dissolved due to [[attainder]]. However in light of the services the early Endō clan had given to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] agreed to preserve the clan name, which was assigned to the eldest son of one of his ''[[hatamoto]]'', Shirasu Tadayasu, who was married to the daughter of one of his concubines, Oden-no-kata. This son was assigned the name of "Endō Tanechika", and was raised by Toda Ujichika of [[Ogaki Domain]]. He was assigned an estate of 10,000 ''koku'' in [[Hitachi Province|Hitachi]] and [[Shimotsuke Province]]s on reaching his maturity. In 1698, he was transferred to Ōmi Province. This marks the start of Mikami Domain.<ref name= "Gaku"/>
The 5th ''daimyō'', Endō Tanenori, served as ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'' and supervised the reconstruction of the Nishi-no-maru enclosure of [[Edo Castle]], for which he was awarded an increase in ''[[kokudaka]]'' to 12,000 ''koku''. In 1860, he received a promotion in status allowing him to build a [[Japanese castle|castle]] in place of his ''jin'ya'', although no castle was actually built. His successor and final ''daimyō'', Endō Taneki, was ''[[Bugyō]]'' over the ''[[Kōbusho]]'' (shogunal military academy) from 1863 and participated in the [[
==Bakumatsu period holdings==
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