Satake Yoshitane

Satake Yoshitane (1227–1278) was the sixth head of the Satake clan of Hitachi, succeeding his father Nagayoshi in 1272. He served as Sanuki no kami and Hitachi no suke. He married a daughter of the Iwasaki of Iwaki district in Mutsu.

He used the marriage to extend Satake influence into southern Mutsu, where his sons founded cadet branches. In 1276 he founded the Rinzai temple Shōgin-ji. He died in 1278 and his son Yukiyoshi succeeded him.