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[[Image:Japan Kyushu Kagoshima.png|right|thumb|300px|The island of Kyûshû, with Kagoshima Prefecture in dark green. Satsuma han covered this territory, along with some to the northeast, in Hyûga province.]]

[[Image:Japan Kyushu Kagoshima.png|right|thumb|300px|The island of Kyûshû, with Kagoshima Prefecture in dark green. Satsuma han covered this territory, along with some to the northeast, in Hyûga province.]]

*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|Hyûga province]]; [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] as vassal.

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

*Lords: [[Shimazu clan]]

*Lords: [[Shimazu clan]]

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

*''[[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|daimyô]]'' 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|Hyûga]] on the island of [[Kyushu|Kyûshû]], and had the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû 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|daimyô]]'' 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|Hyûga]] on the island of [[Kyushu|Kyûshû]], and had the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] as a vassal state. The territory is largely contiguous with today's Kagoshima prefecture, plus parts of Miyazaki prefecture.  

*Sansom, George (1963). ''A History of Japan: 1615-1867.'' Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp218-242.

*Sansom, George (1963). ''A History of Japan: 1615-1867.'' Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp218-242.

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