satsuma

They quickly overthrew the conservative Tokugawa shogunate, then eliminated the remaining conservative factions by crushing the Satsuma Rebellion.

There was only a permanent threat of military intervention from Satsuma if the Ryukyuan king would have dared to act against the demands of Satsuma, which included a tribute and unfavorable commercial relationships.

Despite this incredible capability for output, it's about as frightening as a satsuma.

I suspect the narrator might have confused grapefruit with satsuma - easy to do if you ignore size and colour...

Small satsuma plantings were developed in the Gulf states as early as the 1890s but were destroyed by the freezes of 1894-95 and 1899.

Give me a 2lb bag of satsuma oranges and I'll give you back an empty bag a short time later.

Did she reveal that the typewriter actually identified as a satsuma?

But it's suggesting a satsuma as the best type of apple.

It's more complicated than that: Ryukyu was a tributary of both Japan and China, and de facto a vassal state of Satsuma from 1609 onwards.

The samurai didn’t survive the Satsuma Rebellion but they were admired and respected even by many of the people who fought against them in the following decades.

By the early 1940s the hardy satsuma had again made a comeback, with some 12,000 acres growing in the Gulf states of Louisiana, Alabama and northern Florida.

This dual allegiance of Ryukyu, openly to China and secretly to Satsuma allowed Ryukyu to be an intermediary in some commerce between China and Japan, which officially was forbidden.

I don't eat most grains, but I do eat some brown rice, buckwheat, sweet potatoes, satsuma "yams", etc.

- I don't eat nightshade-family vegetables (including potatoes), but I do eat sweet potatoes (the regular yellow ones and satsuma "yams").

According to Satsuma, he and his crew members thought they had been hired for a film shooting in China when they landed in North Korea instead.

The real military power behind the restoration was the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance, the Emperor was mostly[1] a convenient figurehead, and many of the Shogun's retainers transitioned smoothly into nobles and bureaucrats in the new system.

Though interestingly: > though Kim despised the Japanese, he set aside his pride and flew in the special-effects team of the original films, along with Kenpachiro Satsuma, the man inside the Godzilla suit.