Two days later, Saigō's rebels, while attempting to block a mountain pass, encountered advanced elements of the national army enroute to reinforce Kumamoto castle.

Later, forces loyal to the emperor broke through rebel lines and managed to end the siege on Kumamoto castle after fifty-four days.

is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Kumamoto in Kumamoto Prefecture.

Matsumoto, Kumamoto and Himeji ( popularly known as the White Heron castle ) are excellent examples of the castles of the period, while Nijo Castle in Kyōto is an example of castle architecture blended with that of an imperial palace, to produce a style that is more in keeping with the Chinese influence of previous centuries.

" At age 16 he was called to serve in the Kumamoto castle town as a menial in charge of cleaning ( Osōji-bōzu お掃除坊主 ).

The Commandant of Kumamoto castle, Major General Tani Tateki had 3, 800 soldiers and 600 policemen at his disposal.

On February 19, the first shots of the war were fired as the defenders of Kumamoto castle opened fire on Satsuma units attempting to force their way into the castle.

Kumamoto castle, built in 1598, was among the strongest in Japan, but Saigō was confident that his forces would be more than a match for Tani's peasant conscripts, who were still demoralized by the recent Shimpuren Rebellion.

On February 22, the main Satsuma army arrived and attacked Kumamoto castle in a pincer movement.

On the night of April 8, a force from Kumamoto castle made a sortie, forcing open a hole in the Satsuma lines and enabling desperately needed supplies to reach the garrison.

On its march to Kumamoto castle, the army was divided into three divisions ; a vanguard of 4, 000 men, the main division of 4, 000 men, and a rearguard of 2, 000 men.

The castle town of Higo was usually at Kumamoto City.

* Chiba Castle, a castle in Kumamoto, Japan

Then in December, he went with Thomas Glover to visit the daimyō of Kumamoto at his castle, but the daimyō was away at the time.

In 1611, Musashi began practicing zazen at the Myōshin-ji temple, where he met Nagaoka Sado, vassal to Hosokawa Tadaoki ; Tadaoki was a powerful lord who had received the Kumamoto Domain in west-central Kyūshū after the Battle of Sekigahara.

An account of Musashi's life, the Niten-ki 二天記, was published in Kumamoto in 1776, by Toyota Kagehide, based on the recollections of his grandfather Toyota Masataka, who was a second generation pupil of Musashi.

Another frontier, in Kyūshū, was apparently somewhere north of today's Kumamoto prefecture.

This version of karuta was created by Kumamoto Kenmin Television, a local television station located in the Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan who are also the creators of Kumamoto dialect karuta.

In 2011, Arao city in Kumamoto prefecture decided to close its track was the oldest one of NAR.

Shoko Asahara was born into a large, poor family of tatami mat makers in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture.

was a city located in Kumamoto, Japan.

Another frontier, in Kyūshū, was apparently somewhere north of today's Kumamoto prefecture.

Kiyoura was born with the name Fujaku in Kamoto-gun, Higo Province, ( part of present-day Yamaga, Kumamoto ), as the fifth son of a Buddhist priest named Ōkubo Ryoshi.

As an author, he studied under Natsume Sōseki, who was a teacher at his high school in Kumamoto.

After working for the newspaper the Asahi Shimbun as journalist for several years, he was elected to the House of Councillors of Japan as a member of the LDP in 1971, representing Kumamoto Prefecture.

Historically the area was called Higo Province ; and the province was renamed Kumamoto during the Meiji Restoration.

There was further expansion in the 1970s, with the opening of three new plants in Utazu, Kagawa in April 1972, in Sanbongi, Miyagi in June 1974, and in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto in February 1975.

The next year ( 1876 ), Nogi was named as the Kumamoto regional troop's Staff Officer, and transferred to command the 1st Infantry Regiment, and for his service in the Satsuma Rebellion, against the forces of Saigō Takamori in Kyūshū, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Yokoi was a samurai born in Kumamoto, Higo Province ( present-day Kumamoto Prefecture ), and a distant descendant of Hōjō Takatoki.

Hosokawa Tadatoshi, the third lord of Kumamoto, was the patron of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.

The head of the main family line ( Kumamoto ) was given the hereditary title of marquis ( kōshaku ), while the heads of the secondary branches became viscounts ( shishaku ); the titles became obsolete in 1947.

was a city located in Kumamoto, Japan.

In 1926, after a year spent as caretaker of Mitori Kannon-dō temple in Kumamoto, Santōka set out on the first of many walking trips.

He founded the first Shorinjiryu Kenkokan Karate dojo in Oshima Park, Hamada village, in Kumamoto prefecture, Kyūshū in 1945.

On 26 March 1868, the first Naval Review was held in Japan ( in Osaka Bay ), with 6 ships from the private domainal navies of Saga, Chōshū, Satsuma, Kurume, Kumamoto and Hiroshima participating.

The first national agricultural experiment station was founded in 1893 in Tokyo, Sendai, Kanazawa, Osaka, Hiroshima, Tokushima, and Kumamoto under the Edict No. 18.

Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center of Kyūshū, the southernmost of the four major Japanese islands.

It is divided between north and south by a major tectonic line running from Usuki City in Ōita Prefecture to Yatsushiro City in Kumamoto Prefecture, which is to the west of Ōita.

Mito City and Kumamoto Prefecture are major nattō-producing areas.

In another case of discrimination, Kurokawa Onsen Hotel in Kumamoto Prefecture ran into legal trouble when leprosy patients were refused entry.

Kumamoto Castle's history dates to 1467, when fortifications were established by Ideta Hidenobu.

For his loyalty to the Tokugawa, Kiyomasa was rewarded with the former territories of his rival Konishi ( who had sided with Ishida ), which when added to his existing territory, increased the Kumamoto domain to around 530, 000 koku.

Honda says that before the plant closed, sufficient 2010 model year Goldwings were produced to meet demand until production resumes in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan in 2011, when 2012 model year motorcycles will be produced using tooling transported from the old plant.