southernmost of the main Japanese islands, Kyūshū. Battles had raged for the previous few years between the daimyō of Kyūshū, and by 1585 the Shimazu family of...

conquered Kyūshū, wresting control from the Shimazu clan. Toyotomi Hidenaga, Hideyoshi's half-brother, landed to the south of Bungo province on Kyūshū's eastern...

conquer Kyushu, the Shimazu army retreated to the Higo Province. The Tachibana forces were eventually forced to flee during the Kyūshū Campaign. Tachibana...

won the Battle of Hetsugigawa which became the first battle of the Kyushu Campaign. In addition, Shimazu Iehisa and Shimazu Toyohisa have defeated three...

to Toyotomi Hideyoshi to intervene in Kyūshū against the Shimazu clan, thus spurring Hideyoshi's Kyūshū Campaign of 1587. In 1545, Sōrin married Lady Nata...

who defended the Otomo clan in the Kyūshū campaign against Shimazu's army. Her contributions to the Kyushu campaign were so significant that they completely...

his participations in battles against Takeda clan, Tenshō-Jingo War, Kyūshū campaign Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, Battle of Sekigahara, Siege of Osaka...

allegiance to him. In 1587, he defeated the Shimazu clan in a Kyūshū campaign and pacified Kyūshū. In 1590, he defeated the Later Hōjō clan in the Siege of...

with his brothers Yoshihiro, Toshihisa, and Iehisa, he launched a campaign to unify Kyūshū. Starting in 1572 with a victory against Itō clan at the battle...

rank, lower grade (ju go-i no ge 従五位下). In 1587, he fought in the Kyūshū campaign against the Shimazu clan. Later, after Higo Province was confiscated...