| The leaders of the domain administration intended to adopt a member of the Himeji Domain's lord family, which was relatively rich in those days, with a dowry in order to solve the domain's financial distress. |
藩首脳部は貧窮する藩財政を打開するため、当時比較的裕福であった姫路藩から持参金つき養子を迎えようとした。 |