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:''Japanese:'' 九州 ''(Kyuushuu)''
Kyushu is the southernmost of Japan's main four islands. Its name means "nine states" and, as might be expected, it was historically divided into nine [[provinces of Japan|provinces]]: [[Bungo province|Bungo]], [[Buzen province|Buzen]], [[Chikuzen province|Chikuzen]], [[Hizen province|Hizen]], [[Chikugo province|Chikugo]], [[Higo province|Higo]], [[Hyuga province|Hyûga]], [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]], and [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]].
==History==
Though far from the major historical political, economic, and cultural centers of [[Kansai]] and [[Kanto|Kantô]], as the part of the archipelago closest to the Asian mainland, Kyushu features prominently throughout history in Japan's interactions with the outside world.
Kyushu is generally said to have been the site of the earliest state formation in the Japanese archipelago. Though the origins and identity of the [[Yayoi people]] remain very much subjects of debate, it is widely accepted that prior to the establishment of a proto-Japanese state on the [[Yamato province|Yamato]] plain in central [[Honshu]], the Yayoi clans became organized on Kyushu. Small tribal communities formed confederations, and engaged in trade and relations with societies on the [[Ryukyu Islands]], Korean peninsula, and in China. Among the more powerful, or at least more famous today, was a confederation known as [[Yamatai]], ruled for a time by Queen [[Himiko]].
Kyushu remained a site of great political and economic importance into the [[Yamato period]], as the center on Honshu solidified and a unified [[Yamato]] state emerged.
*Dazaifu, local/regional command headquarters
*Mongols
*contact with Europe, guns, Christians
*Korean invasions
*Edo period - Satsuma/Ryukyu, Nagasaki
*Bakumatsu/Meiji - Satsuma, Saga Rebellions
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Kyushu is the southernmost of Japan's main four islands. Its name means "nine states" and, as might be expected, it was historically divided into nine [[provinces of Japan|provinces]]: [[Bungo province|Bungo]], [[Buzen province|Buzen]], [[Chikuzen province|Chikuzen]], [[Hizen province|Hizen]], [[Chikugo province|Chikugo]], [[Higo province|Higo]], [[Hyuga province|Hyûga]], [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]], and [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]].
==History==
Though far from the major historical political, economic, and cultural centers of [[Kansai]] and [[Kanto|Kantô]], as the part of the archipelago closest to the Asian mainland, Kyushu features prominently throughout history in Japan's interactions with the outside world.
Kyushu is generally said to have been the site of the earliest state formation in the Japanese archipelago. Though the origins and identity of the [[Yayoi people]] remain very much subjects of debate, it is widely accepted that prior to the establishment of a proto-Japanese state on the [[Yamato province|Yamato]] plain in central [[Honshu]], the Yayoi clans became organized on Kyushu. Small tribal communities formed confederations, and engaged in trade and relations with societies on the [[Ryukyu Islands]], Korean peninsula, and in China. Among the more powerful, or at least more famous today, was a confederation known as [[Yamatai]], ruled for a time by Queen [[Himiko]].
Kyushu remained a site of great political and economic importance into the [[Yamato period]], as the center on Honshu solidified and a unified [[Yamato]] state emerged.
*Dazaifu, local/regional command headquarters
*Mongols
*contact with Europe, guns, Christians
*Korean invasions
*Edo period - Satsuma/Ryukyu, Nagasaki
*Bakumatsu/Meiji - Satsuma, Saga Rebellions
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