Akita Sanesue
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Nihongo was a Japanese daimyo who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods.
Biography
He was the son of daimyo Andō Chikasue, a powerful figure in Dewa Province.<ref name="秋田実季の紹介">Template:Cite web</ref>
Sanesue pledged loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1590 during the Siege of Odawara, and served under him in various campaigns such as the Korean campaign.<ref>武家家伝_秋田(安東)氏</ref>
At the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, he sided with the eastern army.<ref name="秋田実季の紹介" /> As Satake Yoshinobu was being moved northward to the Akita's holdings in 1602, the Akita clan, under Sanesue, was moved to Shishido, in Hitachi Province. Sanesue led his sons into combat at the Osaka Campaign in 1615.
In 1630, because of discontent against the shogunate, he was exiled to Asama in Ise Province, where he died in 1659. Despite this exile, his son Toshisue survived, and was moved to the Miharu Domain, in Mutsu Province, where his descendants remained in power until the Meiji Restoration.