History

The Kumamoto castle is very few castles where it is used for the actual combat in the castle of the early modern age.
The Satsuma samurai group bear arms with weapons such as modern cannons which did not exist in the age when Kiyomasa Kato fortified the Kumamoto castle. The castle tower seemed to have been burnt down immediately after the southwest war though the Kumamoto castle had endured this attack to the last minute.
This year the Kumamoto castle has been 400 years when it was raised a castle by Kiyomasa Kato.