佐竹氏
During its rule over Kubota, the Satake clan was ranked as a family, and as such, had the privilege of shogunal audiences in the Great Hall ("Ohiroma") of Edo Castle. Though no Satake lord ever held the office of "shōgun", the clan (together with many of the other domains of northern Honshū) assisted the shogunate in policing the frontier region of Ezochi (now Hokkaido).