Where is the Satsuma peninsula?
Satsuma ware Satsuma ware The precise origins and early innovations of Satsuma ware are somewhat obscure; however most scholars date its appearance to the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. The Satsuma region was ripe for the development of kilns due to its access to local clay and proximity to the Korean peninsula. In 1597–1598, at the conclusion of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's incursions into Korea, Korean potters were forcefully brought to Japan to kick-start Kyūshū's non-existent ceramic industry. These potters eventually mainly settled in Naeshirogawa and Tateno, which were to become the hub of the local pottery industry. Satsuma ware dating up to
Japanese battleship Satsuma Arsenal in 1922 to comply with the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty, stricken from the Navy List on 20 September 1923 and converted into a target ship. "Satsuma" was sunk by the battleships and off the southern tip of the Bōsō Peninsula, near the mouth of Tokyo Bay on 7 September 1924. Japanese battleship Satsuma The "Satsuma" class was ordered in late 1904 under the 1904 War Naval Supplementary Program during the Russo-Japanese War. Unlike the previous pre-dreadnought battleships, they were the first battleships ordered from Japanese shipyards, although "Satsuma" used many imported components. They were originally designed with