Also known as Seinan no eki, Teichu no ran, Junen senso (in the Kagoshima dialect, Jinen no yussa), and Shigakko Senso, it was the biggest among a series of uprisings of warrior class broke out in the early Meiji period.
西南役（せいなんのえき）、丁丑の乱、十年戦争（鹿児島弁では「じねんのゆっさ」）、私学校戦争とも呼ばれ、明治初期の一連の士族反乱のうち最大規模のもの。