The Satomi clan was a clan of samurai

Samurai

is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...

 which claimed descent from Nitta Yoshishige (d. 1202), whose son Yoshitoshi took 'Satomi' as his surname. The Satomi moved from Kōzuke province

Kozuke Province

was an old province located in the Tōsandō of Japan, which today comprises Gunma Prefecture. It is nicknamed as or .The ancient provincial capital was near modern Maebashi. During the Sengoku period, Kōzuke was controlled variously by Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, the late Hōjō clan, and...

 to Awa province

Awa Province (Chiba)

was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture. It lies on the tip of the Boso Peninsula , whose name takes its first kanji from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was or...

 in the mid-15th century, and remained there into the Edo Period

Edo period

The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....

. During the Sengoku period

Sengoku period

The or Warring States period in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century. The name "Sengoku" was adopted by Japanese historians in reference...

, the Satomi were forced to submit to the overlordship of Hōjō Ujitsuna

Hojo Ujitsuna

was the son of Hōjō Sōun, founder of the Go-Hōjō clan. He continued his father's quest to gain control of the Kantō ....

 in 1539. The remainder of the period saw the clan battle the Hōjō

Late Hojo clan

The ' was one of the most powerful warrior clans in Japan in the Sengoku period and held domains primarily in the Kantō region.The clan is traditionally reckoned to be started by Ise Shinkurō, who came from a branch of the prestigious Ise clan, a family in the direct employment of the Ashikaga...

, Takeda, and Imagawa clan

Imagawa clan

The was a Japanese clan that claimed descent from Emperor Seiwa . It was a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Ashikaga clan.-Origins:Ashikaga Kuniuji, grandson of Ashikaga Yoshiuji, established himself in the 13th century at Imagawa and took its name.Imagawa Norikuni received from his cousin the...

s on a number of occasions.

The clan's holdings amounted to 120,000 koku

Koku

The is a Japanese unit of volume, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres. The koku was originally defined as a quantity of rice, historically defined as enough rice to feed one person for one year...

at the beginning of the Edo period, but the clan died out in 1622.

Notable members of the Satomi

• Satomi Sanetaka
• Satomi Yoshitoyo
• Satomi Yoshitaka
• Satomi Yoshihiro
  Satomi Yoshihiro
  was a samurai of the Satomi family who fought against the Hōjō clan during Japan's Sengoku period.He was defeated by Hōjō Ujiyasu at the 1564 second battle of Kōnodai; his father, Satomi Yoshitaka, had been defeated by Ujiyasu's father, Hōjō Ujitsuna, in the first battle of Kōnodai in 1538...
  
  
• Satomi Yoshiyori
• Satomi Yoshiyasu
• Satomi Tadayoshi
  Satomi Tadayoshi
  was a retainer of the Japanese clan of Ōkubo following the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 17th century. Following the conspiracy of the Ōkubo clan against the authority of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tadayoshi along with many others under the Ōkubo were dispossessed of their personal holdings....