Satake (clan)

The Satake family coat of arms:
"Satake fan" ( 佐竹扇 ) with moon symbol

Satake Shozan

The Satake ( Japanese 佐竹氏 , Satake-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), derived from Minamoto no Yoshimitsu ( 源義光 ), brother of Yoshiie, ( Seiwa Genji ). With an income of 205,000 Koku , the Akita resident Satake belonged to the great Tozama daimyō of the Edo period .

The clan's cultural heritage is now located in the Senshū Bunko in Chiyoda , Tokyo .

Known members of the family

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Hideyoshi ( 秀業 , 1151–1228) great-grandson of Yoshinari, inherited the Satake domain in Hitachi province . When Minamoto Yoritomo raised troops against the Taira , he refused to participate. He retired to his castle Kanasa and survived a siege and was able to defend his property.
Yoshinori ( 義仁 , 1395–1462), descendant of Hideyoshi, supported the Kanryō ( 管領 ) of Kamakura Ashikaga Mochiuji in 1416 against the Uesugi . Yoshinori is said to have been not only a great warrior, but also a good painter and writer.

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Yoshiaki ( 義昭 , 1531–1565) defeated a coalition of neighboring daimyō and enlarged his area at their expense.

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Yoshishige ( 義重 , 1547-1612) was a successful general and ruled the provinces of Hitachi , Kazusa and Shimōsa . He waged war against Hōjō Ushinao and Date Masamune , conquered Ōhira, Mito and Ōta and established himself in Ōta, leaving Mito to his son Yoshinobu. His son Tsunetaka was adopted by the Iwaki clan.
Yoshinobu ( 義宜 , 1570–1633) inherited his father's vast property in 1590. In the same year he took part in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign against the Hōjō of Odawara and was confirmed as lord of Hitachi Province. Residing in Mito, he had an income of 800,000 koku. After the Battle of Sekigahara , he was not deposed, but moved to Akita with the Kubota Castle . His income was reduced to 205,000 koku.

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Yoshiatsu (義敦 , 1748–1785), was interested in painting and initially painted in the style of the Kanō school . Encouraged by Hiraga Gennai , whom he had called to solve the water problems in his mines, he switched to painting in the “Dutch” -European style, known as Ranga (蘭画 ). A number of still lifes and landscapes under his stage name Satake Shozan (佐竹曙山 ) have come down to us from him.
Yoshimasa ( 義敦 , 1775–1815), followed his father Yoshiatsu at the age of eleven, was interested in many things, set up schools and promoted the economy and devoted himself to calligraphy and painting. Together with Uesugi Harunori (Yonezawa), Tokugawa Harusada (Kii) and Hosokawa Shigekata (Kumamoto) he was one of the "Four Famous Princes" ( 四名君 ) of his time.

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After the Meiji restoration until the abolition of the nobility in 1945, the main line carried the title of Prince .

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Norihisa (敬久 , * 1947), the current head of the house, is currently the governor of Akita Prefecture .

↑ T. Furusawa: Kamon Daicho . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 64.
↑ Akita Museum of Art (ed.): Satake-ke shiryo-ten. 1988
↑ Miura Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya sōran, Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006, ISBN 4-05-604378-7

Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the original 1910 edition by Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .

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