Historically the area was called Higo province and was renamed to Kumamoto prefecture during the Meiji Restoration as part of the abolition of the feudal system.
Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four major Japanese islands.
It is bordered by the Ariake inland sea and the Amakusa archipelago to the west, Fukuoka Prefecture and Oita Prefecture to the north, Miyazaki Prefecture to the east, and Kagoshima Prefecture to the south.
Amakusa (天草) is an island belonging to Japan, 26½ miles long and 13½ in extreme width, situated about 32°20'N, 130°E, on the west of the province of Higo[?] (island of Kyushyu[?]), from which it is separated by the Yatsushiro-kai[?].
A number of the heads of the Christians executed in connexion with the Shimabara[?] rebellion in the first half of the 17th century were buried in this island.
Now Amakusa, Kumamoto[?] is a district and Amakusa, Amakusa, Kumamoto[?] is a town[?] in Kumamoto.
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