薩摩国
After Hideyoshi's subjugation of Kyushu, his commissioner Ishida Mitsunari ordered "daimyō" Shimazu Yoshihisa who governed Kagoshima (Satsuma Province) to conduct a survey of timber resources found in Yakushima, some time around 1590. Yakushima timbers carried on 11 vessels from Shōdoshima (an island in the Inland Sea) were sent to Kyoto for erecting the "Daibutsu-den" or "Great Buddha Hall" at the Hōkō-ji temple built by Hideyoshi. The "Wilson stump" is considered the result of logging at this time.