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Amakusa Shirō
Also called: Masuda Shirō Tokisada
Christian youth hailed as leader of the Shimabara Rebellion (1637–1638), killed when Hara Castle fell
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In 1637 the peasants and Christians of Shimabara and Amakusa in Kyushu rose against crushing taxes and persecution and held out in Hara Castle, but were crushed by the shogunate’s army in 1638.
People who appear alongside
- Tokugawa Iemitsu1604 – 1651
Third Tokugawa shogun (r. 1623–1651), who institutionalised alternate attendance and completed the ban on Christianity and the closed-country system
Themes this person appears in
- Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800
The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning