Akita clan - Akitauji

Japanese: 秋田氏 - あきたうじ

A feudal lord in the Dewa Province during the Sengoku period. In the Edo period, he was the lord of Miharu Domain in Mutsu Province. He was a descendant of Abe Sadato, the head of the Mutsu Province prisoners of war, and initially, as the Ando clan, had jurisdiction over the northern part of Mutsu Province as well as Ezo. At the end of the Sengoku period, Shimonokuni Chikasue emerged and unified the divided Ando clan. He consolidated control over his territory as a Sengoku daimyo, and is said to have taken the name Akita after the place name of Akitaminato in Dewa (present-day Akita City) or the official title of Akita Jonosuke. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Oshu Shioki, in 1591, Hideyoshi gave Sanesue, Sanesue's son, over 52,000 koku of rice. In 1602, he was transferred to the Shishido Domain in Hitachi Province with a fief of 50,000 koku, and in 1645 he was transferred to the Miharu Domain with a fief of 55,000 koku, and the family continued to hold the title of lord of Miharu Domain for generations until the Meiji Restoration.

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Japanese:

出羽国の戦国大名。江戸時代は陸奥国三春(みはる)藩主。陸奥国俘囚長(ふしゅうのちょう)安倍貞任(さだとう)の子孫で，初め安東(あんどう)氏（安藤氏）として，陸奥国北部のほか蝦夷(えぞ)地をも管轄していた。戦国末期に下国愛季(しものくにちかすえ)が出て，分裂していた安東氏を統一。戦国大名として領国の支配を固め，出羽秋田湊（現秋田市）の地名または秋田城介(じょうのすけ)の官職名にちなんで秋田氏を称したという。豊臣秀吉による奥羽仕置(しおき)を経て，1591年愛季の子実季(さねすえ)が秀吉から５万2000石余を与えられた。1602年に常陸国宍戸(ししど)藩５万石，1645年には三春藩５万5000石へ転封(てんぽう)となり，代々三春藩主を世襲して明治維新に至る。

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