Shimazu family

The family Shimazu (島津) is a family of Daimyo S which reigned on the provinces of Satsuma, Osumi and Hyuga (Kyûshû).

This family goes down from the Empereur Seiwa (850-880) and from Shôgun Minamoto No Yoritomo (1147-1199), by her Tadahisa son who will take the name of the field of Shimazu (province of Hyuga).

It is not exaggerated to claim that the Shimazu family was one of the most powerful machines of war of the Period Sengoku. The extreme south of Kyūshū was divided into two provinces: Satsuma and Osumi. Since the Period Kamakura, Shimazu named Shugo (Governor of province named by the mode, responsible for the police force and the army. )

The Shimazu clan, most powerful on Kyushu decides to unify his island. For that it was to subject two clans: that of Otomo and that of Ryuzoji. But the battle gained by Shimazu against the Ryuzoji clan led by Ryuzoji Takanobu, drew the attention of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to the new power of the Shimazu clan. Three years later, pretexting a help of the Otomo clan, Hideyoshi Kyushu with its troops invades and fights the Shimazu clan with the battle of okita nawate on March 5th, 1584.

The capital of the family was the town of Kagoshima. In 1600, the family took part in the camp of the losers in the Bataille of Sekigahara. In 1877, the clan revolted to try to make perdurer the socity of the Samurai S, which had just been abolished following the reforms of the Meiji era. The revolt was repressed with difficulty by the imperial troops already occuexagérpées by disorders with the forces shogunales. The Shimazu family belongs to the rare Japanese families to have kept the same stronghold (of 700.000 Koku ) of the Kamakura period to the Meiji revolution.

Order of succession

  1. Tadahisa Shimazu
  2. Tadatoki Shimazu
  3. Hisatsune Shimazu
  4. Tadamune Shimazu
  5. Sadahisa Shimazu
  6. Morohisa Shimazu
  7. Ujihisa Shimazu
  8. Yuihisa Shimazu
  9. Motohisa Shimazu
  10. Hisatoyo Shimazu
  11. Tadakuni Shimazu
  12. Tachihisa Shimazu
  13. Tadamasa Shimazu
  14. Tadaosa Shimazu
  15. Tadataka Shimazu
  16. Katsuhisa Shimazu
  17. Takahisa Shimazu (began the first campaigns for the unification of Kyūshū)
  18. Yoshihisa Shimazu (succeeds in controlling most of the island but lost the territories gained afterforwarding of Hideyoshi Toyotomi)
  19. Yoshihiro Shimazu (reunified Kyushu; in the battle of Sekigahara)
  20. Tadatsune Shimazu took part (organized the invasion of the Royaume of Ryūkyū)
  21. Mitsuhisa Shimazu
  22. Tsunataka Shimazu
  23. Yoshitaka Shimazu
  24. Tsugutoyo Shimazu
  25. Munenobu Shimazu
  26. Shigetoshi Shimazu
  27. Shigego Shimazu
  28. Narinobu Shimazu
  29. Nariaki Shimazu
  30. Nariakira Shimazu
  31. Hisamitsu Shimazu
  32. Tadayoshi Shimazu
  33. Tadashige Shimazu

Other members

  • Sanehisa Shimazu

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