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was a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Akita Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Kubota Castle in what is now the city of Akita and was thus also known as the . It was governed for the whole of its history by the Satake clan. During its rule over Kubota, the Satake clan was ranked as a family, and as such, had the privilege of shogunal audiences in the Great Hall (''Ohiroma'') of Edo Castle.〔 In the Boshin War of 1868-69, the domain joined the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei, the alliance of northern domains supporting the Tokugawa shogunate, but then later defected to the imperial side. As with all other domains, it was disbanded in 1871. ==History== The Satake clan was a powerful samurai clan, while ruled Hitachi Province from the late Heian period through the end of the Sengoku period. In 1600, the Satake sided with the pro-Toyotomi cause at the Battle of Sekigahara.〔Saga, ''Memories of Silk and Straw'', pp. 16-17.〕〔Naramoto, ''Nihon no kassen: monoshiri jiten'', p. 376.〕 After the defeat of the pro-Toyotomi forces by Tokugawa Ieyasu and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Satake clan was punished by a severely reduction in its income level.〔 ("Satake-shi" on Harimaya.com ) (accessed 15 August 2008)〕 and by being ordered to change their ancestral territories in Hitachi with a much smaller fief in inhospitable northern Japan. As a result of this drop in income (to 205,000 ''koku'', or less than half of their previous income of around 540,000 ''koku''), the Satake had to lay off many retainers, and institute a general stipend reduction for those it kept.〔 ("Kubota-han" on Edo 300 HTML ) (accessed 15 August 2008)〕〔Karino, p. 8.〕 The domain also struggled through agricultural crises, which resulted in several peasant uprisings throughout the course of its history. It was also beset by an internal ''O-Ie Sōdō'' conflict, the , which was brought on by financial issues. The domain had a population of 56,813 people per the 1730 census. It maintained its primary residence (''kamiyashiki'') in Edo at Uchi-Kanda Asahi-cho until a fire in 1682, after which the residence was moved to Shichigen-cho in Shitaya.〔(Edo daimyo.net ) 〕 The domain’s secondary residence (''shimoyashiki'') was in Fukagawa (later moved to Sakumachō), and its tertiary residences (''nakayashiki'') were in Torigoe, Honjo and Nippori. Satake Yoshiatsu (better known by his nom-de-plume “Satake Shozan”), the 8th generation lord of Kubota, was an accomplished artist.〔French, ''Through Closed Doors: Western Influence on Japanese Art 1639-1853'', p. 124.〕 Yoshiatsu painted a number of paintings in the Dutch style, and also produced three treatises on European painting techniques, including the depiction of perspective.〔("Akita ranga" on ''Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System'' ). Accessed 19 August 2008.〕 He was also a student of Dutch studies (''rangaku'') scholar Hiraga Gennai, who he had invited up to Akita to advise him on management of the domain's copper mines.〔 It was during Yoshiatsu's lifetime that the of art was born and briefly flourished.〔 Kubota Domain was uncommon in that it contained more than one castle, and was an exception to the Tokugawa shogunate's "one castle per domain" rule. The main castle was Kubota Castle, but there were also castles at Yokote and Ōdate, and five fortified estates elsewhere in the domain: Kakudate, Yuzawa, Hiyama, Jūniso, and In'nai.〔Karino, p. 9.〕 Each of these was given to a senior retainer who ran it as his own small castle town. The senior retainers had personal retainers who resided in these castle towns. Kubota Domain had two sub-domains: Iwasaki (20,000 ''koku'') and the short-lived Kubota-shinden (10,000 ''koku''). Two of the clan elder (''karō'') families serving the Kubota domain were branches of the Satake family. One was the North Satake (Satake-hokke) family, stipended at 10,000 ''koku''; the other the West Satake (Satake-nishi ke) family, stipended at 7200 ''koku''. The North Satake family had its landholdings around Kakudate, one of the fortified estates mentioned above; the West Satake resided in and had their landholdings around Ōdate. Yokote Castle was in the care of another hereditary ''karō'' family, the Tomura.〔''Zusetsu: Nihon meijō-shū'', p. 14.〕 Norihisa Satake, the current mayor of the city of Akita, is a descendant of the North Satake. During the Boshin War of 1868-69, the Satake clan was a signatory to the pact that formed the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei,〔Onodera, ''Boshin nanboku sensō to Tōhoku seiken'', p. 140.〕 the alliance of northern domains led by the Sendai Domain. The Satake clan's delegation at Shiroishi, the alliance's headquarters, was led by the clan elder (''karō'') Tomura Yoshiari.〔Also known as Tomura Jūdayū.〕〔Yamakawa, ''Aizu Boshin senshi'', p. 319.〕 However, the Satake had political difficulties with the alliance, which culminated in the murder,〔Yamakawa, p. 348.〕 in Akita, of a delegation from Sendai on August 21, 1868,〔July 4th by the lunisolar calendar.〕〔Onodera, ''Boshin nanboku sensō to Tōhoku seiken'', p. 193.〕〔Hoshi, ''Ōuetsu Reppandōmei'', p. 125-126.〕 and the display of the messengers' gibbeted heads in the Akita castle town.〔Onodera, p. 156.〕 The delegation, led by Shimo Matazaemon, was dispatched to request the Akita domain to hand over Kujō Michitaka and other officials of an imperial delegation that had been originally sent to the region to gather support for the imperial cause.〔Hoshi, p. 125.〕 The Satake then backed out of the alliance and supported the imperial army; eleven days later, on September 1, 1868〔July 15th by the lunisolar calendar.〕 the Tsugaru clan of the neighboring Hirosaki Domain followed suit.〔〔McClellan, ''Woman in the Crested Kimono'', p. 104.〕 In response, the pro-alliance domains of Morioka and Ichinoseki Domains sent troops to attack Kubota.〔Onodera, p. 194.〕 Kubota forces were hard-pressed to defend their territory, with the result that the alliance troops had made serious advances by the time the war ended in northern Honshū.〔Onodera, p. 194.〕 In early 1869, Satake Yoshitaka formally gave up the domain's registers to the imperial government, and was made imperial governor of the Akita domain (''han chiji'').〔Karino, p. 40.〕 In mid-1869, the imperial government rewarded the service rendered by the main line of the Satake clan, by raising its income by 20,000 ''koku''.〔Karino, p. 40.〕 The heads of all the Satake clan's branches were relieved of office as daimyo in 1871,〔Karino, p. 41.〕 and ordered to relocate to Tokyo. Satake Yoshitaka subsequently received the ''kazoku'' peerage title of ''koshaku'' (marquis). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kubota Domain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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