Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō (died 1638)

Shimazu Tadatsune

16/17th-century Japanese warlord; leader of Satsuma Domain

Shimazu Tadatsune was a tozama daimyō of Satsuma, the first to hold it as a formal fief (han) under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the first Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom. As lord of Satsuma, he was among the most powerful lords in Japan at the time, and formally…