Akita Sanesue

Infobox_Officeholder | name= Akita Sanesue
nationality=Japanese
order=Lord of Shishido
term_start= 1602
term_end= 1630
predecessor=
successor= Akita Toshisue
birth_date=1576
birth_place=Dewa Province, Japan
death_date=1660
death_place=Asama, Ise Province
spouse= nihongo|Akita Sanesue|秋田 実季|extra=1576 - 1660 was a Japanese samurai who lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods. He was son of Andō Chikasue, a powerful figure in Dewa Province. [ [http://tikugo.cool.ne.jp/osaka/busho/akita/b-akita-sane.html 秋田実季の紹介 ] ] Sanesue pledged loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1590 during the Siege of Odawara, and served under him in various campaigns such as the Korean campaign. [ [http://www2.harimaya.com/sengoku/html/akita_k2.html •?‰Æ‰Æ“` Q?H“c(ˆÀ“Œ)Ž ] ] At the Battle of Sekigahara, he sided with the eastern army. [ [http://tikugo.cool.ne.jp/osaka/busho/akita/b-akita-sane.html 秋田実季の紹介 ] ] As Satake Yoshinobu was being moved northward to the Akita's holdings in 1602, the Akita clan, under Sanesue, was moved to Shishido, in Hitachi Province. Sanesue led his sons into combat at the Osaka Campaign. In 1630, because of discontent against the shogunate, he was exiled to Asama in Ise Province, where he died in 1659. [ [http://www2.harimaya.com/sengoku/html/akita_k2.html •?‰Æ‰Æ“` Q?H“c(ˆÀ“Œ)Ž ] ] Despite this exile, his son Toshisue survived, and was moved to the Miharu domain, in Mutsu Province, where his descendants remained in power until the Meiji Restoration. [ [http://www2.harimaya.com/sengoku/html/akita_k2.html •?‰Æ‰Æ“` Q?H“c(ˆÀ“Œ)Ž ] ]

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