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*''Japanese'': [[島津]]家 ''(Shimazu-ke)''
*''Japanese'': [[島津]]家 ''(Shimazu-ke)''
The Shimazu, who may have been descended from the [[Koremune clan]], were founded by [[Shimazu Tadahisa]] (d.[[1227]]), who was appointed as military commander of southern [[Kyushu]] by [[Minamoto Yoritomo]] in [[1187]]. The Shimazu were splintered into two contending factions following the death of [[Shimazu Sadahisa]] ([[1265]]-[[1351]]) and remained fractured into the [[Sengoku Period]]. Building on the efforts of his father [[Shimazu Takahisa]], [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]] managed to take much of Kyushu by [[1587]] but was forced back by [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]. Though they supported [[Ishida Mitsunari]] in [[1600]], the Shimazu remained a powerful house until the end of the [[Edo Period]]. It was once believed that Shimazu Tadahisa was an illegitimate child of [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], a story that has largely been abandoned since the end of the Edo Period.
The Shimazu, who may have been descended from the [[Koremune clan]], were founded by [[Shimazu Tadahisa]] (d.[[1227]]), who was appointed as military commander of southern [[Kyushu]] by [[Minamoto Yoritomo]] in [[1187]]. It was once believed that Shimazu Tadahisa was an illegitimate child of [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], a story that has largely been abandoned since the end of the Edo Period.
==Prominent Members of the Shimazu clan==
The Shimazu were splintered into two contending factions following the death of [[Shimazu Sadahisa]] ([[1265]]-[[1351]]) and remained fractured into the [[Sengoku Period]]. Building on the efforts of his father [[Shimazu Takahisa]], [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]] managed to take much of Kyushu by [[1587]] but was forced back by [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]].
The Shimazu remained a powerful house through the end of the [[Edo Period]], controlling [[Satsuma han]], with a ''[[kokudaka]]'' of 770,000 ''[[koku]]'', the second-largest of any domain (''[[han]]''). Members of the family continued to be powerful and influential in government and business from the [[Meiji period]] onwards, through the 20th century and today.
==Prominent Members of the Shimazu clan<ref>''Kaiyô kokka Satsuma'' 海洋国家薩摩, Kagoshima: Shôkoshûseikan (2010), 58-59.</ref>==
*[[Shimazu Tadahisa]] (1179-1227), 1st family head of the Shimazu
*[[Shimazu Tadahisa]] (1179-1227), 1st family head of the Shimazu
**[[Shimazu Tadasue]], Tadahisa's half-brother by a different father, & progenitor of the Wakasa Shimazu
**[[Shimazu Tadasue]], Tadahisa's half-brother by a different father, & progenitor of the Wakasa Shimazu
*************************[[Nori-hime]], daughter of Nariakira, wife of [[Shimazu Uzuhiko]] of the Echizen Shimazu
*************************[[Nori-hime]], daughter of Nariakira, wife of [[Shimazu Uzuhiko]] of the Echizen Shimazu
*************************[[Yasu-hime]], daughter of Nariakira, later wife of Shimazu Tadayoshi
*************************[[Yasu-hime]], daughter of Nariakira, later wife of Shimazu Tadayoshi
==Prominent Branch and Retainer Families==
In [[1712]]/11, family head [[Shimazu Yoshitaka]] reorganized the status hierarchy of the Shimazu retainer families. The top-ranking group of retainer families, known as the ''ichimon-yonke'' (一門四家), were the [[Kajiki clan|Kajiki]], [[Shigetomi Shimazu clan|Shigetomi (Echizen) Shimazu]], [[Imaizumi clan|Imaizumi Shimazu]], and [[Tarumizu Shimazu clan]]s.<ref name=miyako>''Miyakonojô to Ryûkyû ôkoku'' 都城と琉球王国, Miyakonojô Shimazu Residence (2012), 28.</ref>
Directly below them was a group of families known as the ''daishinbun'' (大身分), lower in status than the ''ichimonke'', but still above the Shimazu ''[[karo|karô]]'' ("House Elders," also known as ''kokurô'', or "Domain Elders") The ''daishinbun'' included the [[Shimazu Saemon clan]] (also known as the Hioki Shimazu), the [[Shimazu Suo clan]] (Hanaoka Shimazu), and the [[Hongo clan|Hongô clan]] (Shimazu Chikugo clan, or Miyakonojô Shimazu), with the [[Shimazu Tosho clan]] (Miyanojô Shimazu) being added to the group later.<ref name=miyako/>
Other prominent Shimazu retainer families included the [[Ijuin clan|Ijûin]], [[Kabayama clan|Kabayama]], and [[Niiro clan]]s.
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