Akita clan

Akita clan 秋田氏
Map of modern-day Fukushima Prefecture. Miharu, which the Akita clan ruled, is highlighted in green.
Home province	Mutsu Province
Parent house	Abe clan
Titles	Various
Founder	Abe no Sadato
Final ruler	Akita Akisue
Founding year	11th century
Ruled until	1873 (Abolition of the han system)
Cadet branches	None

For the feudal domain also known as Akita, see Kubota Domain

The Akita clan (, Akita-shi^?) was a Japanese samurai clan of northern Honshū that claimed descent from Abe no Sadato. The Akita clan was originally known as the Andō clan (安東氏, Andō-shi^?). In the Kamakura period, they were installed in the Tsugaru district of Mutsu Province to trade with Ainu people for the Hōjō clan, and to administer Ezo as a penal colony.

In Sengoku period Andō clan was driven out by Nanbu clan, and migrated to neighbor province Dewa. Andō Chikasue changed the clan's name to Akita. It was Akita Sanesue who was the first Akita daimyō during the Edo period. However, Sanesue lost his land and was sent to Shishido in Hitachi in 1602 by the Tokugawa because he performed very poorly during the Sekigahara Campaign.