The Satsuma Domain (薩摩藩, Satsuma-han Ryukyuan: Sachima-han), briefly known as the Kagoshima Domain (鹿児島藩, Kagoshima-han), was a domain (han) of the Tokugawa...

also known as the Anglo-Satsuma War (薩英戦争, Satsu-Ei Sensō), was a military engagement fought between Britain and the Satsuma Domain in Kagoshima from 15...

the Satsuma Domain of Japan after the invasion of Ryukyu in 1609 but retained de jure independence until it was transformed into the Ryukyu Domain by the...

000 koku. The Chōshū Domain was the most prominent anti-Tokugawa domain and formed the Satchō Alliance with the rival Satsuma Domain during the Meiji Restoration...

Satsuma, Kagoshima, a Japanese town Satsuma District, Kagoshima, a district in Kagoshima Prefecture Satsuma Domain, a southern Japanese feudal domain...

government of Japan, nine years into the Meiji era. Its name comes from the Satsuma Domain, which had been influential in the Restoration and became home to unemployed...

the initial patrons of Satsuma ware, which was later widely exported to the West. In 1871, with the abolition of feudal domains and the establishment of...

domain of Satsuma took place from March to May of 1609, and marked the beginning of the Ryukyu Kingdom's status as a vassal state under the Satsuma domain...

killed by the armed retinue of Shimazu Hisamitsu, the regent of the Satsuma Domain, on a road in Namamugi near Kawasaki. Richardson's killing sparked outrage...

the Satsuma Domain (Satsuma-han) Saigō Takamori of the Satsuma Domain (Satsuma-han) Kido Takayoshi (also known as Katsura Kogorō) of the Chōshū Domain (Chōshū-han)...

at the time. An alliance of western samurai, particularly the domains of Chōshū, Satsuma, and Tosa, and court officials secured control of the Imperial...

government, the military, and the noro priestesses. In 1609, the Japanese Satsuma Domain launched the invasion of Ryukyu, ultimately capturing the king and his...

reconciliation between the previously hostile Chōshū and Satsuma domains, and the Chōshū and Satsuma domains formed the Satchō Alliance. In 1866, the shogunate...

karate-ka (空手家). The Ryukyu Kingdom had been conquered by the Japanese Satsuma Domain and had become its vassal state since 1609, but was formally annexed...

regarded as the main founders of modern Japan. Ōkubo was a samurai of the Satsuma Domain and joined the movement to overthrow the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate during...

Head of the Shimazu clan Narushi Ikeda as Shimazu Hisamitsu, Lord of Satsuma Domain and the guardian of Shigehisa Hanamaru Hakata as Saigō Takamori Kanji...

Shimazu daimyō of Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain, in Kyūshū. In 1862, Kuroda was involved in the Namamugi incident, in which Satsuma retainers killed a British...

during the Bakumatsu, and it was initially funded by the Satsuma Domain and other groups and domains. The logo of SoftBank Group is based on the idea of a...

The invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom by the Shimazu clan of Japan's Satsuma Domain took place in April 1609. Three thousand men and more than one hundred...

seifu) was the government that was formed by politicians of the Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain in the 1860s. The Meiji government was the early government...

Prefecture formed the core of the Satsuma Domain, ruled from Kagoshima Castle, one of the most important Japanese domains of the Edo period and the Meiji...

the outlying Sakishima and Amami Islands. The Ryukyu Kingdom and the Satsuma Domain had soured ties over territorial disputes in the Satsunan Islands. Tokugawa...

was a samurai from the Satsuma domain credited with founding the Jigen Ryu (示現, Jigen). Togo Shigekata was born in 1560 in Satsuma, Japan (current day Kagoshima...

(daimyō) of the Edo period, the 28th in the line of Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma Domain. He was renowned as an intelligent and wise lord, and was greatly interested...

Japanese history". Saigō Kokichi (西郷 小吉) was born in Kajiya, Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain, the eldest son of samurai squire (koshōkumi) Saigō Kichibē and his...

dialect (薩摩方言 Satsuma Hōgen or 薩摩弁 Satsuma-ben), owing to both the prominence of the Satsuma Province and the region of the Satsuma Domain which spanned...

Satsuma Domain Residence Historic Site <Shibuya, Tokyo and Minato, Tokyo> It has been said that central Edo has five residences of the Satsuma Domain...

The city is historically important as the capital of the powerful Satsuma Domain from 1602 to 1871. While the kanji used to spell Kagoshima (鹿児島) literally...

late Edo period who fought for the Satsuma Domain at the Battle of Shiroyama. He was a samurai of the Satsuma Domain, and an associate of Saigō Takamori...

largely centered on Kyoto. During the Boshin War, as a senior commander of Satsuma forces, he was a high-ranking officer of the new Imperial Army. It was...