Takaki

Takaki embraces the Shimabara Peninsula and the approaches to Isahaya in Hizen. Matsukura Shigemasa began building Shimabara Castle in 1618, making it the centre of his domain. Under his son Katsuie, heavy taxes and persecution of Christians contributed to the uprising of 1637. Across the district, Isahaya belonged to Saga domain; there, reclamation of tidal land created new fields, while the Nagasaki road linked the town with Ōmura and the port to the west.