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This article is about the province. For alternative meanings of the word Satsuma, see Satsuma (disambiguation)


was an old province of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 that is now the western half of Kagoshima prefecture
Kagoshima Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Kyushu island. The capital is the city of Kagoshima, Kagoshima....
 on the island of Kyushu
Kyushu

or Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its Japanese Archipelago. Its alternate ancient names include Kyukoku , Chinzei , and Tsukushi-no-shima ....
. Its abbreviation is Sasshu.

During the Sengoku period, Satsuma was a fief of the Shimazu
Shimazu family

The were the daimyo of the Satsuma Domain Han , which spread over Satsuma Province, Osumi Province and Hyuga Province provinces in Japan.The Shimazu were descendants of the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan....
 daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
, who ruled much of southern Kyushu from their castle at Kagoshima
Kagoshima, Kagoshima

is the capital cities of Japan of Kagoshima Prefecture at the southwestern tip of the Kyushu island of Japan, and the largest city in the prefecture by some margin....
 city.

In 1871, with the abolition of feudal domains
Abolition of the han system

The was an act, in 1871, of the new Meiji government of the Empire of Japan to replace the traditional feudal domain system and to introduce centralized government authority ....
 and the establishment of prefectures after the Meiji Restoration
Meiji Restoration

The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure....
, the provinces of Satsuma and Osumi
Osumi Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Kagoshima prefecture. Osumi bordered on Hyuga Province and Satsuma Province provinces....
 were combined to eventually establish Kagoshima prefecture.

Satsuma was one of the main provinces that rose in opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
 in the mid 19th century.






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This article is about the province. For alternative meanings of the word Satsuma, see Satsuma (disambiguation)


was an old province of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 that is now the western half of Kagoshima prefecture
Kagoshima Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Kyushu island. The capital is the city of Kagoshima, Kagoshima....
 on the island of Kyushu
Kyushu

or Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its Japanese Archipelago. Its alternate ancient names include Kyukoku , Chinzei , and Tsukushi-no-shima ....
. Its abbreviation is Sasshu.

During the Sengoku period, Satsuma was a fief of the Shimazu
Shimazu family

The were the daimyo of the Satsuma Domain Han , which spread over Satsuma Province, Osumi Province and Hyuga Province provinces in Japan.The Shimazu were descendants of the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan....
 daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
, who ruled much of southern Kyushu from their castle at Kagoshima
Kagoshima, Kagoshima

is the capital cities of Japan of Kagoshima Prefecture at the southwestern tip of the Kyushu island of Japan, and the largest city in the prefecture by some margin....
 city.

In 1871, with the abolition of feudal domains
Abolition of the han system

The was an act, in 1871, of the new Meiji government of the Empire of Japan to replace the traditional feudal domain system and to introduce centralized government authority ....
 and the establishment of prefectures after the Meiji Restoration
Meiji Restoration

The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure....
, the provinces of Satsuma and Osumi
Osumi Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Kagoshima prefecture. Osumi bordered on Hyuga Province and Satsuma Province provinces....
 were combined to eventually establish Kagoshima prefecture.

Satsuma was one of the main provinces that rose in opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
 in the mid 19th century. Because of this, the oligarchy
Meiji oligarchy

The Meiji oligarchy, was the name used to describe the new ruling class of Meiji period Japan. The members of this class were adherents of kokugaku and believed they were the creators of a new order as grand as that established by Japan's original founders....
 that came into power after the "Meiji Restoration
Meiji Restoration

The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure....
" of 1868 had a strong representation from the Satsuma province, with leaders such as Okubo Toshimichi
Okubo Toshimichi

, was a Japanese statesman, a samurai of Satsuma Province, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration. He is regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan....
 and Saigo Takamori
Saigo Takamori

=Early lifeBorn lunar calendar December 7, the 10th year of Bunsei era , in Kagoshima in Satsuma domain , Saigo served as a low-ranking samurai official in his early career....
 taking up key government positions.

Satsuma is well-known for its production of sweet potato
Sweet potato

The 'sweet potato' is a dicotyledonous plant which belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. Amongst the approximately 50 genera and more than 1000 species of this family, only I....
es, known in Japan as ??? (satsumaimo or "Satsuma potato").

See also


  • Satsuma han
    Satsuma han

    The Satsuma domain was one of the most powerful feudal domains in Tokugawa shogunate Japan, and played a major role in the Meiji Restoration and in the government of the Meiji period which followed....
  • Shimazu clan
  • Japanese battleship Satsuma
    Japanese battleship Satsuma

    =BackgroundFunding for Satsuma was approved as part of the 1904 Emergency Budget for the Russo-Japanese War, and she was the first battleship to be designed and built domestically in Japan, although the basis of the design was essentially a modified version of the Royal Navy's Lord Nelson class battleship and many parts were sourced from Uni...