The Shimazu clan of Satsuma managed to expand from their province to take over the entire island of Kyushu. And in time even the man who had unified Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu, would come to fear how tough they could be!
ruled over the province of Satsuma, where 
Kagoshima would be in modern Kyushu.
dirigía la provincia de Satsuma, donde
Kagoshima estaría en el actual Kyushu.
governava a província de Satsuma,
onde seria Kagoshima nos tempos modernos.