Daimyo flags - Hitachi (Japan)

Last modified: 2023-06-10 by zachary harden
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• Satake Yoshinobu
• Inaba Masakatu

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• Japan
• Daimyo flags, 15th - 17th century

Satake Yoshinobu

1570-1633

by Jaume Ollé

image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 14 February 2023

He participated in the attack on Odawara Castle in 1590 and was relieved by Toyotomi Hideyoshi of his territories in Hitachi Province and eastern Shimotsuke Province. The war banner has white background with Satake’s family emblem of a red fan with a white circle. The fan has five bones and is circular, representing the moon. The Satake fan is often thought of as a "sun fan," but in Satake's case it depicts the moon. Until modern times, the sun and moon were generally represented by circles, with the sun in red and the moon in silver or white in Japan.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 14 February 2023

Inaba Masakatu

1697-1634

by Jaume Ollé

His mother was Kasuga no Tsubone, the nanny of the third Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu . He served Tokugawa Iemitsu since her childhood and became the lord of Odawara Castle with 85,000 goku. The war banner has black background with a white circle.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 25 February 2023