Satake Yoshisato

Viscount Satake Yoshisato (佐竹 義理, October 10, 1858 – April 26, 1914), was the 9th and final daimyō of Iwasaki Domain (also known as Nitta Domain) in Dewa Province (present day Yuzawa, Akita).

He refused to participate in either the Tokugawa armies or in the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei in the Boshin War during the Meiji restoration, and was rewarded by the new Meiji government for his neutrality with 2000 gold ryo .

In 1871, with the abolition of the han system and the merger of the former Iwasaki Domain into the new Akita prefecture, he was left without a position.

In 1876, he studied law at the forerunner of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, but quit school due to illness the following year.

He died in 1914 at age 57; his grave is at the Satake clan cemetery at Itabashi, Tokyo.