Rokugō rebellion
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| Onodera clan loyalists |
 Satake clan
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| Unknown | Satake Yoshinobu | ||||||||
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| c. 1,000 rōnin | Unknown | ||||||||
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The Rokugō rebellion was a last stand of over 1,000 rōnin in 1603, who had been samurai in service of Onodera Yoshimichi until his defeat and exile by the Tokugawa shogunate's followers in 1601. Refusing to submit to the new ruler of Yoshimichi's former lands, Satake Yoshinobu, the rōnin launched an unsuccessful rebellion at Rokugō in "a final suicidal gesture" for their old master Yoshimichi, to whom they remained loyal.
The Onodera clan was a relatively minor noble family in the Dewa Province during the late Sengoku period that had consolidated its domain in modern-day southern Akita in course of almost three decades of warfare. During the course of these years, it had repeatedly faced and fiercely resisted several invasions by outsiders, most notably the Mogami clan. Enjoying a considerable degree of popular support among the local population and loyalty among their retainers, the Onodera successfully fended off all attacks on their lands.
These localised conflicts gained a new notion, however, when the war between the forces loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyori broke out in 1600, resulting in lords all over Japan having to decide where their loyalties laid. Onodera Yoshimichi, head of the Onodera family at the time, pledged himself to the Toyotomi cause (the only daimyō in the Akita area to do so) and remained steadfast even after the Toyotomi loyalists were decisively defeated at Sekigahara. The Mogami, on the other side, had joined forces with Tokugawa, and used the Onodera clan's new political isolation to defeat them for once and for all. Thus the weakened Onodera were finally subjugated, and the surviving clan members, including Onodera Yoshimichi, were exiled. Though one clan member, Onodera Shigemichi, refused to yield even after this point and continued to resist, he was cornered and committed suicide later in 1601.
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