was the 3rd ''

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'' of

Kubota Domain was a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Akita Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Kubota Castle in what is now the city of Akita and was thus also known as the . It was governed for the whole of its histo ...

Dewa Province was a province of Japan comprising modern-day Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka. Dewa bordered on Mutsu and Echigō Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was . History Early peri ...

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(modern-day

Akita Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in ; "Tōhoku" in . Its population is approximately 966,000 (as of 1 October 2019) and its ge ...

), and then 21st hereditary chieftain of the

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. His

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was '' Ukyō-no-daifu'' and ''Jijū'', and later raised to ''Sakon'e-shōshō'' and his Court rank was Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade.

Biography

Satake Yoshizumi was the younger son of

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. In 1646, he was presented in formal audience to

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and confirmed as heir to Kubota Domain. he became ''daimyō'' on his father's retirement in 1672. In 1701, he divided 20,000 ''

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'' of the domain as a fief for his brother, Satake Yoshinaga, and another 10,000 ''koku'' for his nephew, Satake Yoshikuni, creating two sub-domains:

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and Kubota-Shinden Domain. Kubota-Shinden Domain was reabsorbed back into Kubota Domain in 1732, but Iwasaki Domain lasted until the

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as a cadet house of the Satake clan. In 1703, Satake Yoshizumi died at

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. It was said that he often forgot the eat or sleep, and sometimes vomited blood, as he worked tirelessly for the benefit of the domain. Satake Yoshizumi was wed to Tsuruhime, the daughter of

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, but his only son, Satake Yoshimitsu died in 1699. His second son had been adopted by the

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and was now Sōma Nobutane, daimyo of Sōma Domain, so Kubota Domain was inherited by his third son by a concubine, Satake Yoshitada.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Satake, Yoshizumi 1637 births 1703 deaths Satake clan Tozama daimyo People of Edo-period Japan

Biography

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