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Shimazu Yoshitaka was the fourth [[Edo period]] daimyô of [[Satsuma han]].

Shimazu Yoshitaka was the fourth [[Edo period]] daimyô of [[Satsuma han]].

He was named Chamberlain (''jijû'') in [[1689]] and Minor Captain in [[1704]], with the [[court rank]] of Lower Junior Fourth Rank. He was then elevated to the title of Middle Captain in [[1710]], and to the Upper Junior Fourth Rank, before being raised to the Lower Senior Fourth Rank in [[1714]], keeping his title of Middle Captain. This was the second highest rank any Shimazu lord achieved during the Edo period; he was matched only by [[Shimazu Narioki]], and exceeded only by [[Shimazu Tadatsune|Shimazu (Tadatsune) Iehisa]].<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 101. </ref>

He was named Chamberlain (''jijû'') in [[1689]] and Minor Captain in [[1704]], with the [[court rank]] of Lower Junior Fourth Rank. He was then elevated to the title of Middle Captain and the rank of Upper Junior Fourth Rank in [[1710]], on the occasion of a [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]], before being raised to the Lower Senior Fourth Rank in [[1714]], keeping his title of Middle Captain, on the occasion of a second Ryukyuan mission. Yoshitaka escorted a third Ryukyuan mission to Edo in [[1719]], but was not elevated in rank again at that time.<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 67.</ref> Even so, this was the second highest rank any Shimazu lord achieved during the Edo period; Yoshitaka was matched only by [[Shimazu Narioki]], and exceeded only by [[Shimazu Tadatsune|Shimazu (Tadatsune) Iehisa]].<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 101. </ref>

He was succeeded by his son [[Shimazu Tsugutoyo]]. Two of his other sons, [[Shimazu Tadaakira]] and [[Shimazu Tadanori]], became heads of the [[Imaizumi clan|Imaizumi]] and [[Shigetomi Shimazu clan|Shigetomi]] branch families, respectively.

He was succeeded by his son [[Shimazu Tsugutoyo]]. Two of his other sons, [[Shimazu Tadaakira]] and [[Shimazu Tadanori]], became heads of the [[Imaizumi clan|Imaizumi]] and [[Shigetomi Shimazu clan|Shigetomi]] branch families, respectively.