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Created page with "*''Territory: much of Dewa province'' *''Castle: Kubota castle'' *''Lords: Satake clan'' *''Kokudaka: 200,000'' *''Other Names'': 久保田藩 ''(Kubota han)''..."
*''Territory: much of [[Dewa province]]''
*''Castle: [[Kubota castle]]''
*''Lords: [[Satake clan]]''
*''[[Kokudaka]]: 200,000''
*''Other Names'': 久保田藩 ''(Kubota han)''
*''Japanese'': 秋田藩 ''(Akita han)''
Akita han, also known as Kubota han, was a ''taishin [[kunimochi]]''<ref>The Satake did not hold (''mochi'') an entire [[province]] (''kuni''), but were recognized as being of equivalent power/status.</ref> [[han|domain]] based at [[Kubota castle]] and ruled by the [[Satake clan]]. It was a particularly prominent mining domain, producing much [[gold]], [[silver]], and [[copper]] which then circulated elsewhere in the realm.<ref>Kobata Atsushi. "Coinage from the Kamakura Period through the Edo Period." ''Acta Asiatica'' 21 (1971). pp98-108.</ref>
Akita was in fact the chief producer of copper in the archipelago in the early [[Edo period]]; copper production declined, however, by around 1700, and by the 1760s, the silver mines of Akita and elsewhere in Tôhoku were considered essentially exhausted.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 78.</ref>
At the very beginning of the Edo period, the domain was held initially by the [[Akita clan]], until they were transferred in [[1602]] to a domain in [[Hitachi province]], and replaced by the Satake.
Akita was among a number of domains which supplied troops to aid [[Matsumae han]] in suppressing [[Shakushain's Revolt]] in [[1669]]-[[1672]].<ref>Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. "Creating the Frontier: Border, Identity, and History in Japan's Far North." ''East Asian History'' 7 (June 1994). p8.</ref>
The domain is also known as the home of [[Akita ranga]], a short-lived but significant school of Western-style painting. Comprised chiefly of daimyô [[Satake Shozan|Satake Shôzan]] and his retainer [[Odano Naotake]], the school flourished chiefly in the 1770s.
==Selected Lords of Akita han==
#[[Satake Yoshinobu]] (r. 1602-1633)
#[[Satake Shozan|Satake Yoshiatsu]] (aka Shôzan, d. 1785)
#[[Satake Yoshitaka]] (d. 1884)
==References==
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*''Castle: [[Kubota castle]]''
*''Lords: [[Satake clan]]''
*''[[Kokudaka]]: 200,000''
*''Other Names'': 久保田藩 ''(Kubota han)''
*''Japanese'': 秋田藩 ''(Akita han)''
Akita han, also known as Kubota han, was a ''taishin [[kunimochi]]''<ref>The Satake did not hold (''mochi'') an entire [[province]] (''kuni''), but were recognized as being of equivalent power/status.</ref> [[han|domain]] based at [[Kubota castle]] and ruled by the [[Satake clan]]. It was a particularly prominent mining domain, producing much [[gold]], [[silver]], and [[copper]] which then circulated elsewhere in the realm.<ref>Kobata Atsushi. "Coinage from the Kamakura Period through the Edo Period." ''Acta Asiatica'' 21 (1971). pp98-108.</ref>
Akita was in fact the chief producer of copper in the archipelago in the early [[Edo period]]; copper production declined, however, by around 1700, and by the 1760s, the silver mines of Akita and elsewhere in Tôhoku were considered essentially exhausted.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 78.</ref>
At the very beginning of the Edo period, the domain was held initially by the [[Akita clan]], until they were transferred in [[1602]] to a domain in [[Hitachi province]], and replaced by the Satake.
Akita was among a number of domains which supplied troops to aid [[Matsumae han]] in suppressing [[Shakushain's Revolt]] in [[1669]]-[[1672]].<ref>Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. "Creating the Frontier: Border, Identity, and History in Japan's Far North." ''East Asian History'' 7 (June 1994). p8.</ref>
The domain is also known as the home of [[Akita ranga]], a short-lived but significant school of Western-style painting. Comprised chiefly of daimyô [[Satake Shozan|Satake Shôzan]] and his retainer [[Odano Naotake]], the school flourished chiefly in the 1770s.
==Selected Lords of Akita han==
#[[Satake Yoshinobu]] (r. 1602-1633)
#[[Satake Shozan|Satake Yoshiatsu]] (aka Shôzan, d. 1785)
#[[Satake Yoshitaka]] (d. 1884)
==References==
<references/>