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. It was centered on

Kubota Castle is a Japanese castle in the city Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Kubota Castle was home to the Satake clan, ''daimyō'' of Kubota Domain, rulers of northern Dewa Province. The castle was also known as or . In the offici ...

in what is now the city of

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and was thus also known as the . It was governed for the whole of its history by the

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. During its rule over Kubota, the Satake clan was ranked as a family, and as such, had the privilege of shogunal audiences in the Great Hall (''Ohiroma'') of

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. In the

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of 1868–69, the domain joined the

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, the alliance of northern domains supporting the

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, but then later defected to the imperial side. As with all other domains, it was

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in 1871.

History

The Satake clan was a powerful samurai clan, who ruled

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from the late

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through the end of the

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. In 1600, the Satake sided with the pro-Toyotomi cause at the

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.Saga, ''Memories of Silk and Straw'', pp. 16-17. After the defeat of the pro-Toyotomi forces by

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and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Satake clan was punished by a severe reduction in its ''

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(accessed 15 August 2008) and by being ordered to relocate from their ancestral territories in Hitachi Province to a much smaller fief in inhospitable northern Japan. As a result of this drop in income (to 205,000 ''

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'', or less than half of their previous ''kokudaka'' of around 540,000 ''koku''), the Satake had to lay off many retainers, and institute a general stipend reduction for those it kept."Kubota-han" on Edo 300 HTML
(accessed 15 August 2008) The domain also struggled through agricultural crises, which resulted in several peasant uprisings throughout the course of its history. It was also beset by an internal ''

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'' conflict, the , which was brought on by financial issues. The domain had a population of 56,813 people per the 1730 census. It maintained its primary residence (''kamiyashiki'') in Edo at

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Asahi-cho until a fire in 1682, after which the residence was moved to Shichigen-cho in Shitaya. The domain’s secondary residence (''shimoyashiki'') was in Fukagawa (later moved to Sakumachō), and its tertiary residences (''nakayashiki'') in Torigoe, Honjo and Nippori. Satake Yoshimasa

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(better known by his nom-de-plume "Satake Shozan"), the 8th generation lord of Kubota, was an accomplished artist. Yoshiatsu painted a number of paintings in the Dutch style, and also produced three treatises on European painting techniques, including the depiction of perspective."Akita ranga" on ''Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System''
Accessed 19 August 2008. He was also a student of Dutch studies (''

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'') scholar

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, who he had invited up to Akita to advise him on management of the domain's copper mines. It was during Yoshiatsu's lifetime that the of art was born and briefly flourished. Kubota Domain was uncommon in that it contained more than one castle, and was an exception to the Tokugawa shogunate's "one castle per domain" rule. The main castle was Kubota Castle, but there were also castles at

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and

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, and five fortified estates elsewhere in the domain: Kakunodate, Yuzawa, Hiyama, Jūniso, and In'nai.Karino, p. 9. Each of these was given to a senior retainer who ran it as his own small castle town. The senior retainers had personal retainers who resided in these castle towns. Kubota Domain had two sub-domains: Iwasaki (20,000 ''koku'') and the short-lived Kubota-shinden (10,000 ''koku''). Two of the clan elder (''

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'') families serving the Kubota domain were branches of the Satake family. One was the North Satake (Satake-hokke) family, stipended at 10,000 ''koku''; the other the West Satake (Satake-nishi ke) family, stipended at 7200 ''koku''. The North Satake family had its landholdings around Kakunodate, one of the fortified estates mentioned above; the West Satake resided in and had their landholdings around Ōdate. Yokote Castle was in the care of another hereditary '[karō'' family, the Tomura. Norihisa Satake, the current mayor of the city of Akita, is a descendant of the North Satake. During the

of 1868–69, the Satake clan was a signatory to the pact that formed the

, the alliance of northern domains led by the Sendai Domain. The Satake clan's delegation at Shiroishi Castle, Shiroishi, the alliance's headquarters, was led by the clan elder (''karō'') Tomura Yoshiari. However, the Satake had political difficulties with the alliance, which culminated in the murder, in Akita, of a delegation from Sendai on August 21, 1868,Onodera, ''Boshin nanboku sensō to Tōhoku seiken'', p. 193. and the display of the messengers'

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ed heads in the Akita castle town. The delegation, led by Shimo Matazaemon, was dispatched to request the Akita domain to hand over

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and other officials of an imperial delegation that had been originally sent to the region to gather support for the imperial cause. The Satake then backed out of the alliance and supported the imperial army; eleven days later, on September 1, 1868 the

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of the neighboring

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followed suit. In response, the pro-alliance domains of

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and

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s sent troops to attack Kubota.Onodera, p. 194. Kubota forces were hard-pressed to defend their territory, with the result that the alliance troops had made serious advances by the time the war ended in northern

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.Onodera, p. 194. In early 1869, Satake Yoshitaka formally gave up the domain's registers to the imperial government, and was made imperial governor of Kubota (''han chiji'').Karino, p. 40. In mid-1869, the imperial government rewarded its service in the Boshin War with an increase in ''kokudaka'' of 20,000 ''koku''.Karino, p. 40. However, with the

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in 1871, the former domain was absorbed into the new Akita PrefectureKarino, p. 41. and Satake Yoshitaka was ordered to relocate to

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. He subsequently received the ''

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'' peerage title of ''koshaku'' (

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Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the

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, Kubota Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned ''

'', based on periodic

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surveys and projected agricultural yields. *

**286 villages in Akita District **59 villages in Kawabe District **181 villages in Senboku District **115 villages in Hiraka District **59 villages in Yamamoto District **55 villages in Ogachi District *

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**3 villages in Tsuga District **8 villages in Kawachi District *

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** 1 trading post in Mashike District *

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** 1 trading post in Rishiri District ** 1 trading post in Rebun District ** most of Soya District

List of Daimyō

('' tozama'') 1602-1871

Genealogy (simplified)

*Satake Yoshishige, 18th head of the Satake clan (1547-1612) ** I. Yoshinobu, 1st ''daimyō'' of Kubota (cr. 1602) (1570-1633; r. 1602-1633) **Iwaki Sadataka, Lord of Shinano-Nakamura (1583-1620) *** 15px II. Satake Yoshitaka, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1609-1672; r. 1633-1672) ****Yoshioki (1633-1665) ***** Yoshikuni, 1st ''daimyō'' of Kubota-Shinden (1665-1725) ****** Yoshikata, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Kubota-Shinden (1692-1742) ******* VI. Yoshimasa, 6th ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1728-1753; r. 1749-1753) **** III. Yoshizumi, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1637-1703; r. 1672-1703) ***** IV. Yoshitada, 4th ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1695-1715; r. 1703-1715) ***** Sōma Nobutane, 6th ''daimyō'' of Sōma-Nakamura (1677-1711) ****** Sōma Noritane (1702-1752) ******* Sōma Morotane, 8th ''daimyō'' of Sōma-Nakamura (1734-1791) ******** Sōma Yoshitane, 9th ''daimyō'' of Sōma-Nakamura (1765-1813) ********* Sōma Masutane, 11th ''daimyō'' of Sōma-Nakamura (1796-1845) **********Sōma Mitsutane, 12th ''daimyō'' of Sōma-Nakamura (1819-1887) *********** Satake Yoshisato, 9th ''daimyō'' of Iwasaki, 1st Viscount (1858-1914) ************ Yoshitatsu, 2nd Baron, head of the Iwasaki branch (1885-1935; Baron: 1893-1929) ************* Yoshiaki, head of the Iwasaki branch (1919-1976) ************** Yoshitomo, head of the Iwasaki branch (b. 1951) *************** Asanashi (b. 1986) ********** XII. Satake Yoshitaka II, 12th ''daimyō'' of Kubota, 1st Marquess (1825-1884; Lord: 1857-1868; Governor: 1869-1871; 30th family head: 1857-1872; 32nd family head: 1881-1884; Marquess: cr. 1884) *********** Yoshinari, 33rd family head, 2nd Marquess (1867-1915; 33rd family head and 2nd Marquess: 1884-1915) ************ Yoshiharu, 34th family head, 3rd Marquess (1890-1944; 34th family head and 3rd Marquess: 1915-1944) ************* Yoshihide, 35th family head, 4th Marquess (1914-1983; 35th family head: 1944-1983; 4th Marquess: 1944-1947), m. Tokugawa Yuriko (b. 1917), dau. of Tokugawa Yoshichika, 1st Marquess (1886-1976), and brother of Ogiu (Matsudaira) Yoshitatsu, 3rd Count (b. 1916). He adopted his nephew, the son of Ogiu Yoshitatsu: ************** ''Satake (Ogiu) Takashi, 36th family head'' (b. 1947; 36th family head: 1983-present) ***************Motohiro (b. 1981) *************** Akihiro (b. 1982) ********** Satake Yoshimatsu, 8th ''daimyō'' of Iwasaki (1837-1870) *********** Yoshinao, 31st family head, 1st Baron (1854-1893; 31st family head: 1872-1881; Baron: 1889) **** Yoshinaga, 1st ''daimyō'' of Iwasaki (1655-1741) ***** 15px V. Yoshimine, 5th ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1690-1749; r. 1715-1749) ** A daughter, m. Takakura Nagayoshi (1592-1664) *** Satake Yoshichika (1619-1702) **** Yoshihide (1645-1721) ***** Yoshimoto (1675-1752) ****** Yoshimichi, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Iwasaki (1701-1765) ******* VII. Yoshiharu, 7th ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1723-1758; r. 1753-1758) ******** VIII. Yoshiatsu, 8th ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1748-1785; r. 1758-1785) ********* IX. Yoshimasa, 9th ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1775-1815; r. 1785-1815) ********** X. Yoshihiro, 10th ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1812-1846; r. 1815-1846) *********** XI. Yoshichika, 11th ''daimyō'' of Kubota (1839-1857; r. 1846-1857)

Subsidiary domains

Iwasaki Domain

, also known as was founded in 1701 for Satake Yoshinaga, the fourth son of Satake Yoshitaka, the 2nd ''daimyō'' of Kubota Domain, who assigned him 20,000 ''koku'' of rice revenues from newly opened fields. He built a ''

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'' in what is now

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, where his descendants continued to rule until the Meiji restoration. The domain was unusual in that it did not directly control any territory, but was assigned revenues from the general revenues of the parent domain. The ''daimyō'' of Iwasaki Domain participated in the '' sankin kotai'' system, and used Kubota Domain’s tertiary residence in Edo, located in Torigoe.Edo daimyo.net
* Satake

('' tozama'') 1701-1871

Kubota Shinden Domain

was founded in 1701 for Satake Yoshikune, the grandson of Satake Yoshitaka, the 2nd ''daimyō'' of Kubota Domain. Satake Yoshizumi, the 3rd ''daimyō'' of Kubota domain assigned him 10,000 ''koku'', which he ruled as a subsidiary domain of Kubota Domain until his retirement in 1720. He was succeeded by Satake Yoshikata, who ruled until May 1732. He was adopted by Satake Yoshimine, the 5th daimyo of Kubota Domain to be his heir, and Kubota Shinden Domain was absorbed back into Kubota Domain. * Satake

('' tozama'') 1602-1871

Notes

References

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