was a Japanese

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warrior and ''

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'' of the late

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and early

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

s. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
"Akizuki" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 2
retrieved 2013-5-28. He was the son of

Akizuki Tanezane was a samurai warrior and daimyo from Akizuki clan, son of Akizuki Kiyotane, who was defeated by the Ōtomo clan. Later he joined the Shimazu clan. In 1585, Tanezane supported the Shimazu in an offensive against the Ōtomo at the Siege of ...

. In 1586, Tanenaga joined with his father to fight against

Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the Cour ...

forces during the

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In 1598, Tanenaga made contributions at the

Siege of Ulsan The siege of Ulsan () was an unsuccessful Ming-Joseon attempt to capture Ulsan from the Japanese. The siege lasted from 26 January to 19 February 1598. Background Yang Hao, Ma Gui, and Gwon Yul met up at Gyeongju on the 26 January 1598 and ma ...

castle against the allied Chinese and Korean armies. During the

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, Tanenaga served under

Kuroda Nagamasa was a ''daimyō'' during the late Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods. He was the son of Kuroda Kanbei, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's chief strategist and adviser. Biography His childhood name was Shojumaru (松寿丸). In 1577, when Nagamasa was a ...

. In 1600, in the

Battle of Sekigahara The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: ; Kyūjitai: , Hepburn romanization: ''Sekigahara no Tatakai'') was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu prefecture, Japan, at the end of ...

, Tanenaga defended

Ōgaki Castle 270px, Ōgaki Castle in 1933 270px, Edo period layout map of Ōgaki Castle is a flatlands-style Japanese castle located in the city of Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. During the Sengoku period, Ōgaki Castle was home to several of Toyotomi Hid ...

on behalf of the "Western Army". However, soon after the Western Army suffered defeat,

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convinced Tanenaga to switch allegiance to the Eastern Army. Tokugawa Ieyasu rewarded Tanenaga by recognizing his territory and enabling him to become the first head of

Takanabe Domain The was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Hyūga Province in modern-day Miyazaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.

Hyūga Province was an old province of Japan on the east coast of Kyūshū, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Hyūga''" in . It was sometimes called or . Hyūga bordered on Bungo, Higo, Ōsumi, and Sats ...

on the island of

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. Tanenaga did not have a son so he adopted,

Akizuki Taneharu The Japanese name Akizuki may refer to: * Akizuki clan, a Japanese noble family * Akizuki (surname) Akizuki (秋月) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese noble family *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese dipl ...

, the son of Tanesada (son in law) and Ochō (Tanenaga’s daughter), was appointed as Tanenaga’s successor. Tanenaga died in 1614 and Taneharu inherited the clan.

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Genealogy of the Akizuki of Takanabe
(in Japanese) 1567 births 1614 deaths Daimyo Samurai {{samurai-stub