Example sentences for: satsuma

How can you use “satsuma” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He is buried with 2,023 of his warriors, who died in the ill-fated 1877 Satsuma Rebellion.

  • The local daimyo of Satsuma was so impressed that he started to buy British ships, which became the foundation of the future Imperial Japanese Navy.

  • In 1868 the Satsuma and Choshu clans, never a real threat to Tokugawa authority as long as they remained rivals, joined forces to overthrow the shogun and restore the authority of the emperor, the 14-year-old Mitsuhito.

  • A couple of miles or so north of Kagoshima Station are the lovely Iso Gardens, also landscaped on a hill, where the lord of Satsuma had his villa.

  • In classically narrow, zigzagging lanes designed to hinder surprise attack, the houses, today still inhabited by the Satsuma warriors’ descendants, offer the rare opportunity to visit some exquisite private gardens, otherwise carefully concealed behind tall hedges.


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