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(August 17, 1570-March 5, 1633) was a Japanese daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
 of the Azuchi-Momoyama period
Azuchi-Momoyama period

The came at the end of the Sengoku period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate took place....
 through early Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
. The eldest son of Satake Yoshishige
Satake Yoshishige

was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period. He was the 18th generation head of the Satake clan. He was renowned for his ferocity in battle; he was also known by the nickname of ....
, he was the first generation lord of the Kubota Domain
Kubota Domain

The was a Japanese Han of the Edo period, located in Dewa Province . Its main castle was in modern-day Akita, Akita. The Kubota Domain was also known as the ....
. His court title was Ukyo-dayu.

Biography
Early in Yoshinobu's lifetime, the Satake family was threatened from the north by Date Masamune
Date Masamune

was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful daimyo in the Tohoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai....
 and from the south by Hojo Ujinao
Hojo Ujinao

Hojo Ujinao was a Japanese daimyo of the late Sengoku period, and the final head of the Late Hojo clan. An important figure in the history of Azuchi-Momoyama politics, he lost his entire domain following the Siege of Odawara in 1590....
; however, because he quickly pledged allegiance to Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi

was a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, after Hideyoshi's castle....
 during the Siege of Odawara
Siege of Odawara

Odawara Castle in today's Odawara, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, was besieged three times.*Siege of Odawara - a two-month siege by Uesugi Kenshin, which was abandoned when Takeda Shingen threatened Kenshin's territories...
, he was able to retain his landholdings.






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(August 17, 1570-March 5, 1633) was a Japanese daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
 of the Azuchi-Momoyama period
Azuchi-Momoyama period

The came at the end of the Sengoku period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate took place....
 through early Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
. The eldest son of Satake Yoshishige
Satake Yoshishige

was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period. He was the 18th generation head of the Satake clan. He was renowned for his ferocity in battle; he was also known by the nickname of ....
, he was the first generation lord of the Kubota Domain
Kubota Domain

The was a Japanese Han of the Edo period, located in Dewa Province . Its main castle was in modern-day Akita, Akita. The Kubota Domain was also known as the ....
. His court title was Ukyo-dayu.

Biography


Early in Yoshinobu's lifetime, the Satake family was threatened from the north by Date Masamune
Date Masamune

was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful daimyo in the Tohoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai....
 and from the south by Hojo Ujinao
Hojo Ujinao

Hojo Ujinao was a Japanese daimyo of the late Sengoku period, and the final head of the Late Hojo clan. An important figure in the history of Azuchi-Momoyama politics, he lost his entire domain following the Siege of Odawara in 1590....
; however, because he quickly pledged allegiance to Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi

was a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, after Hideyoshi's castle....
 during the Siege of Odawara
Siege of Odawara

Odawara Castle in today's Odawara, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, was besieged three times.*Siege of Odawara - a two-month siege by Uesugi Kenshin, which was abandoned when Takeda Shingen threatened Kenshin's territories...
, he was able to retain his landholdings. Under Hideyoshi's banner, he was counted as being among the six greatest generals of the Toyotomi clan, together with Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
, Maeda Toshiie
Maeda Toshiie

was one of the leading generals of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period of the 16th century extending to the Azuchi-Momoyama period. His father was Maeda Toshimasa....
, Shimazu Yoshihiro
Shimazu Yoshihiro

was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa and younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa. It had traditionally been believed that he became the seventeenth head of the Shimazu clan after Yoshihisa, but it is currently believed that he let Yoshihisa keep his position....
, Mori Terumoto
Mori Terumoto

Mori Terumoto was the son of Mori Takamoto and grandson and successor of the great warlord Mori Motonari, fought against Toyotomi Hideyoshi but was eventually overcome, participated in the Kyushu campaign on Hideyoshi's side and built Hiroshima Castle....
, and Uesugi Kagekatsu
Uesugi Kagekatsu

Uesugi Kagekatsu was a daimyo during the Sengoku period and Edo period of History of Japan. The son of Nagao Masakage and husband of Uesugi Kenshin's elder sister....
. After the siege of Odawara was concluded, Yoshinobu was able to extend control over the whole of Hitachi Province
Hitachi Province

Hitachi was an old provinces of Japan of Japan which bordered on Iwashiro province, Iwaki province, Shimousa province, and Shimotsuke provinces....
, and soon held over 540,000 koku
Koku

The is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres....
 of land as his private fief.

Yoshinobu enjoyed good relations with Ishida Mitsunari
Ishida Mitsunari

Ishida Mitsunari was a samurai who led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 17th century....
, and joined the western army during the Battle of Sekigahara
Battle of Sekigahara

The , popularly known as the , was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 which cleared the path to the Shogunate for Tokugawa Ieyasu. Though it would take three more years for Ieyasu to consolidate his position of power over the Toyotomi clan and the daimyo, Sekigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate,...
; for this he was punished by Ieyasu, who reduced his landholdings to 180,000 koku
Koku

The is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres....
 and had him transferred to the Kubota Domain
Kubota Domain

The was a Japanese Han of the Edo period, located in Dewa Province . Its main castle was in modern-day Akita, Akita. The Kubota Domain was also known as the ....
, in Dewa Province
Dewa Province

is an old provinces of Japan of Japan, comprising modern-day Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka, Akita....
. Yoshinobu took part in the Siege of Osaka
Siege of Osaka

The was a series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages , and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishment....
, fighting Toyotomi commanders such as Kimura Shigenari
Kimura Shigenari

was a Japanese samurai of the early Edo period. A retainer of the Toyotomi clan, Shigenari fought at the Siege of Osaka and died in battle....
 and Goto Matabei.

Books

  • Saga, Jun'ichi (1987). Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan. New York: Kodansha International.