Satsuma Clan

One of the two major clans that was in opposition to the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Satsuma Clan, after the Meiji Restoration, supplanted their rival Chosu Clan in the Imperial Japanese Army; they were always dominant in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Their traditional stronghold was Kagoshima in the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. They were allied with the House of Fushimi, a branch of the imperial family from which Hirohito's Empress Nagako was descended.