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*Japanese:薩摩藩 (Satsuma han) or, more correctly, 鹿児島藩 (Kagoshima han)

Japanese:薩摩藩 (Satsuma han) or, more correctly, 鹿児島藩 (Kagoshima han)

*Territory: [[Satsuma province]], [[Osumi province]] and parts of [[Hyuga province]]; [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryūkyū]] as vassal.

 

*Lords: [[Shimazu clan]]

Territory: [[Satsuma province]], [[Osumi province]] and parts of [[Hyuga province]]; [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryūkyū]] as vassal.

*''[[Kokudaka]]'': 770,000

Lords: [[Shimazu clan]]

''[[Kokudaka]]'': 770,000

Satsuma was one of the most powerful ''[[han]]'' in the [[Edo period]], and played a major role in the [[Meiji Restoration]] and in the government of the [[Meiji period]] which followed. Controlled throughout the Edo period by the ''[[tozama]] [[daimyo|daimyō]]'' of the [[Shimazu clan]], its territory spanned the [[Provinces of Japan|provinces]] of [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]], [[Osumi province|Osumi]] and the south-west region of [[Hyuga province|Hyūga]] on the island of [[Kyushu|Kyūshū]], and had the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryūkyū Kingdom]] as a vassal state. The territory is largely contiguous with today's Kagoshima prefecture, plus parts of Miyazaki prefecture.  

Satsuma was one of the most powerful ''[[han]]'' in the [[Edo period]], and played a major role in the [[Meiji Restoration]] and in the government of the [[Meiji period]] which followed. Controlled throughout the Edo period by the ''[[tozama]] [[daimyo|daimyō]]'' of the [[Shimazu clan]], its territory spanned the [[Provinces of Japan|provinces]] of [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]], [[Osumi province|Osumi]] and the south-west region of [[Hyuga province|Hyūga]] on the island of [[Kyushu|Kyūshū]], and had the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryūkyū Kingdom]] as a vassal state. The territory is largely contiguous with today's Kagoshima prefecture, plus parts of Miyazaki prefecture.