Shimazu clan

Shimazu clan 島津氏
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Home province	Satsuma Ōsumi Hyūga
Parent house	Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji)
Founder	Shimazu Tadahisa
Final ruler	Shimazu Tadashige
Current head	Shimazu Nobuhisa
Founding year	12th century (ca. 1196 AD)
Dissolution	still extant
Ruled until	1947, Constitution of Japan renders titles obsolete

The Shimazu clan (Japanese: 島津氏, Hepburn: Shimazu-shi) were the daimyō of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan.

The Shimazu were identified as one of the tozama or outsider daimyō families^[1] in contrast with the fudai or insider clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the Tokugawa clan.