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Created page with "::''Not to be confused with the 1632 Siege of Shimabara.'' *''Dates: 1637/10/25-1638/2/28'' *''Japanese'': 島原の乱 ''(Shimabara no ran)'' The Shimabara R..."
::''Not to be confused with the [[1632]] [[Siege of Shimabara]].''
*''Dates: [[1637]]/10/25-[[1638]]/2/28''
*''Japanese'': 島原の乱 ''(Shimabara no ran)''
The Shimabara Rebellion was a peasant uprising which took place in and around [[Shimabara castle]] in [[Hizen province]] ([[Nagasaki prefecture]]) in [[1637]]-[[1638]]. Led by [[Christianity|Christian]] converts [[Amakusa Shiro|Amakusa Shirô]] and [[Yamada Emosaku]], the rebellion is often cited as a major final straw, showing the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] the potential threat Christianity posed to unity and stability of the realm, and thus inspiring the shogunate's expulsion of all Europeans the following year,<ref>Including those of mixed-race and their Japanese guardians, but excepting employees of the [[Dutch East India Company]], who were then restricted to [[Hirado]].</ref> expansion of the policies of [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]], and strengthened enforcement of bans on Christianity. The Shimabara Rebellion, in which tens of thousands of rebels held out for several months against an army of roughly 100,000, was the last major armed conflict in [[Edo period]] Japan until the [[Bakumatsu period]] more than 200 years later.
The rebellion is said to have been sparked in part by the "cruel" policies of the local ''daimyô'' [[Terazawa Katataka]] and persecution of Christians by [[Matsukura Katsuie]]. Some 20,000 families holed up in Shimabara castle, and were only finally defeated with the aid of a Dutch warship which fired upon the castle from offshore, and as a result of Yamada betraying the rebels to instead inform to the Tokugawa forces; in the end, his life was spared as a result of this loyalty. Most of the prominent Kyushu ''daimyô'' families contributed to the suppression of the rebellion, along with many others, including [[Tachibana Muneshige]], [[Mizuno Katsushige]], [[Kuroda Tadayuki]], [[Yamazaki Ieuji]], [[Arima Toyouji]], [[Nabeshima Katsushige]], [[Miyamoto Musashi]], and [[Omura Suminobu|Ômura Suminobu]].
In the end, nearly all of the rebels, perhaps as many as 37,000, were killed.
==References==
*Warren Cohen, ''East Asia at the Center'', Columbia University Press (2000), 199.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Battles]]
*''Dates: [[1637]]/10/25-[[1638]]/2/28''
*''Japanese'': 島原の乱 ''(Shimabara no ran)''
The Shimabara Rebellion was a peasant uprising which took place in and around [[Shimabara castle]] in [[Hizen province]] ([[Nagasaki prefecture]]) in [[1637]]-[[1638]]. Led by [[Christianity|Christian]] converts [[Amakusa Shiro|Amakusa Shirô]] and [[Yamada Emosaku]], the rebellion is often cited as a major final straw, showing the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] the potential threat Christianity posed to unity and stability of the realm, and thus inspiring the shogunate's expulsion of all Europeans the following year,<ref>Including those of mixed-race and their Japanese guardians, but excepting employees of the [[Dutch East India Company]], who were then restricted to [[Hirado]].</ref> expansion of the policies of [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]], and strengthened enforcement of bans on Christianity. The Shimabara Rebellion, in which tens of thousands of rebels held out for several months against an army of roughly 100,000, was the last major armed conflict in [[Edo period]] Japan until the [[Bakumatsu period]] more than 200 years later.
The rebellion is said to have been sparked in part by the "cruel" policies of the local ''daimyô'' [[Terazawa Katataka]] and persecution of Christians by [[Matsukura Katsuie]]. Some 20,000 families holed up in Shimabara castle, and were only finally defeated with the aid of a Dutch warship which fired upon the castle from offshore, and as a result of Yamada betraying the rebels to instead inform to the Tokugawa forces; in the end, his life was spared as a result of this loyalty. Most of the prominent Kyushu ''daimyô'' families contributed to the suppression of the rebellion, along with many others, including [[Tachibana Muneshige]], [[Mizuno Katsushige]], [[Kuroda Tadayuki]], [[Yamazaki Ieuji]], [[Arima Toyouji]], [[Nabeshima Katsushige]], [[Miyamoto Musashi]], and [[Omura Suminobu|Ômura Suminobu]].
In the end, nearly all of the rebels, perhaps as many as 37,000, were killed.
==References==
*Warren Cohen, ''East Asia at the Center'', Columbia University Press (2000), 199.
<references/>
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Battles]]