Tentsuki - Amatsuke

Japanese: 天附 - あまつけ
Tentsuki - Amatsuke

...Population: 20,097 (1995). The Jomon and Yayoi ruins in Amatsuke show that people have been living here since early times. The Hisatama clan, one of the five Amakusa clan members of the Middle Ages, built Hisatama Castle (a sea castle), and with the rise of trade with the South Seas and the shipping industry, Ushibuka Port flourished as a stopover point on the way to Nagasaki, Satsuma, and Ryukyu.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Tentsuki" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人口2万0097(1995)。天附(あまつけ)の縄文・弥生遺跡は早くから人が住みついたことを物語る。中世天草五人衆の一人久玉氏が久玉城(海城)を構築,その後南蛮貿易,海運業の隆盛に伴い,長崎,薩摩,琉球への中継寄港地として牛深港が栄えた。…

※「天附」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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