Prince 1915-1947) Tadahiro, 4th head of the Shimazu-Tamari line (1933- ; 4th head 1990 - ) Tadami (1961 - ) Tadayoshi (1993 - ) Order of succession Shimazu Tadahisa Shimazu Tadatoki Shimazu Hisatsune Shimazu Tadamune Shimazu Sadahisa Shimazu Ujihisa Shimazu Motohisa Shimazu Hisatoyo Shimazu Tadakuni Shimazu Tatsuhisa Shimazu Tadamasa Shimazu Tadaharu Shimazu Tadataka Shimazu Katsuhisa Shimazu Takahisa Shimazu Yoshihisa Shimazu Yoshihiro Shimazu Tadatsune Shimazu Mitsuhisa Shimazu Tsunataka Shimazu Yoshitaka Shimazu Tsugutoyo Shimazu Munenobu Shimazu Shigetoshi Shimazu Shigehide Shimazu Narinobu Shimazu Narioki Shimazu Nariakira Shimazu Tadayoshi (with his father, Shimazu Hisamitsu, as regent) Shimazu Tadashige Shimazu Tadahide Shimazu Nobuhisa Other members Shimazu Toshihisa Shimazu Iehisa Shimazu Toyohisa Shimazu Tadahira Shimazu Tadamune Shimazu Sanehisa Shimazu Kiriyama (Exiled, self-imposed) Shimazu Shigehide Important retainers The Shimazu shichi-tō comprised the seven most significant vassal families—the Niiro, Hokugō, Ijuin, Machida, Kawakami, Ata and Kajiki. Sengoku period Ijuin Tadaaki Ijuin Tadaao Ijuin Tadamune Ijuin Tadazane Niiro Tadamoto Tanegashima Tokitaka Uwai Kakuken Yamada Arinobu Yamada Arinaga Akizuki Tanezane Akizuki Tanenaga Ei Hisatora Edo period Kabayama Hisataka Shō Nei, King of Ryūkyū Shō Tai, King of Ryūkyū Saigō Takamori See also Sengan-en Takako Shimazu Bombardment of Kagoshima Notes References Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888). Ancien Japon. Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; Kerr, George H. and Mitsugu Sakihara. (2000). Okinawa, the History of an Island People. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. ; OCLC 247416761 Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (1906) Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha. ; Nobiliaire du japon (abridged version of 1906 text). Sansom, George. (1958). A History of Japan: 1615-1867. Stanford University Press. Daimyo Ryukyu Islands