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	Friendship Visit to Shimabara Daiichi Elementary School
		Shimabara Daiichi Elementary School's doll, Little Mary, is prominently displayed in a special room with tatami mats that is across a walkway from the main school building.
		I found out later that she is the English teacher at Shimabara Daiichi Elementary School and two other elementary schools in the city of Shimabara.
		Several Shimabara residents are working enthusiastically to plan for the April 2003 homecoming exhibition of Miss Nagasaki, the Japanese Friendship Doll at the Rochester Museum and Science Center in New York.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /dolls/visits/oct2002/shimabara/index.htm (533 words)

	Rebellion at Shimabara
		The Shimabara Rebellion in 1637 marked the final brutal act in Japan's tolerance of foreign presence and led to the expulsion of all foreigners except the Dutch, who remained on Deshima Island in Nagasaki Bay.
		The roads and fields around Hara Castle were littered with countless men who died from exposure to the bitter cold winter weather, many of whom had never fired a shot.
		The castle moats filled with the dead and dying as rebels withdrew toward the main castle, reduced to throwing cooking pots at their attackers.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C14/E1404.htm (3693 words)

	Shimabara Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Shimabara, rebels besieged Shimabara castle and took over the fortress at Hara.
		Hirotaka had already left for Shimabara on January 2 with 500 samurai and gathered 800 more from Omura.
		On March 10, shogunate forces begun to gather in Shimabara and by April there were 30,000 rebels facing 200,000 shogunate soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion (661 words)

	Christianity in Japan-Shimabara Revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The roses are of extremely crude workmanship wer apparenly cast from the molten bullets in Hara Castle.
		Heavy taxes led farmers in the Shimabara Pninsula of wha is now Nagasaki Prefecture to rise up against the government in 1637 and 1638.
		Hara Castle was designated a nationally important historical site in 1938, but before now it has hardly been investigated.
	www.baobab.or.jp /~stranger/mypage/hara.htm (679 words)

	Prokai.com - Japan Photos 2005 - Kyushu - Shimabara and Unzen-Fugendake
		Shimabara is a small rural town just east of Nagasaki, about 2 hours by the local one-car-train.
		Shimabara is most noted for being partially wiped out in the early 1990s by the near by volcano Unzen Dake.
		Many Christians settled in Shimabara and began practicing their religion and converting the local townsfolk.
	www.prokai.com /photos/Japan05/Nagasaki/Day2.html (167 words)

	WISHES
		Led by a youth called Masuda Shiro from Amakusa, the peasant rebels of Shimabara, along with their Christian convert followers, held out against the overwhelming Tokugawa forces until driven to the brink by hunger and eventual massacre in a final assault on 12 April 1638 in their stronghold in Hara Castle.
		After the governors of Nagasaki arrived near Shimabara they established their residence in a village half a league (a mile and a half) distant from the fortress to await the arrival of lords from the court.
		The point is that the Christianized rebels of Amakusa and Shimabara, in common with generations of peasant rebels in Japan, sprang from a common root.
	www.uwosh.edu /home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/correa.html (3255 words)

	Castle - Wikimedia Commons
		This is an illustration of a castle from Webster’s Dictionary circa 1900
		Reconstruction of the medieval castle Tunsberghus in Tønsberg
		Romanesque castle of Loarre, in the province of Huesca.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Castle (212 words)

	Japanese Castles
		Castles built thereafter had to be approved by the Tokugawa Bakufu.
		The number of castles decreased even further during World War II when most were destroyed because they were being used for military purposes.
		The greatest concentration of castles is on Honshu in central Japan.
	tanutech.com /japan/jcastles.html (477 words)

	Journal Week 7
		At the entrance of the castle, there were child-sized samurai and ninja costumes which the kids managed to fit into.
		Shimabara is known to have the cleanest water in their streams though the entire
		For dessert he ordered the famous Shimabara dumplings which are small dough balls in a very sweet syrup, along with the crème puffs he bought on the way.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzeeap3s/id35.html (2563 words)

	Japan Karatedo Organization : JKO Forums : THE SHIMABARA REBELLION
		Beginning in 1569, the Shimabara Peninsula, which stretches southeastward from Nagasaki, and the Amakusa Islands to the south of the peninsula became home to thousands of Christian converts thanks to the missionary activities of Father Luis d'Almeida and the supportive efforts of the Christian daimyo Konishi Yukinaga (Figure 2).
		IT WAS in the castle town of Shimabara east of Nagasaki, with smouldering Mount Unzen in the background and the pine-covered hills of Kumamoto across the bay, that some 20,000 Christian peasants rose up against the Tokugawa military dictatorship in 1637.
		Amakusa Shiro Tokisada and the rebellion of Shimabara's Catholic peasants vs Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, the horror of the Buddhist Inquisition, and the closing of Japan from the rest of the globe.
	www.jko.com /portal/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=46&PN=1 (12373 words)

	The edo
		The Ômura stood as a daimyo house until the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the abolishment of the han in the 19th Century.
		Iwasaki Castle was taken from Takayama Ukon, and Shizugatake was surrounded.
		Guessing that the matron of the castle, Hideyori's mother Yodo-gimi, was a weak link that could be exploited, Ieyasu ordered that her location be determined and cannon fire directed in that area.
	theedo.blogspot.com (15508 words)

	Shimabara Uprising
		The new ruler of Shimabara Territory, Matsukura Shigemasa and his son Katsuie, and the ruler of Karatsu of Amakusa Islands, Terasawa Katataka, tyrannically seized Christian farmers by increasing high tax level.
		Especially Matsukura Shigemasa, he fixed very high tax level to gain money to use in Shimabara Castle construction as far as people died of starvation and many were tortured.
		On October 15,1637, The rebel assembled at Kuchi-No-Tsu Village at the southernmost of Shimabara Peninsula.
	www.geocities.com /konru/uprise.html (1028 words)

	Acidophilus notes \| 14:01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shimabara Castle (島原城; -jō) is the castle of Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
		Construction was commenced on the castle in 1618 and completed in 1624 by Matsukura Shigemasa, who was then lord of the Shimabara domain.
		Though the castle tower was destroyed in 1871, it was later restored.
	www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=Shimabara_Castle (224 words)

	Japan Travel Tips - Japan Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Kitsuki Castle, is located Kitsuki-city in Oita-ken, was built on the slightly elevated hill in the Shiroyama park which overlooks the castle town in Kitsuki, and the present castle was rebuilt in 1960.
		The castle was burnt down in 1865 in the war between the Kokura and Chosyu clan.
		Shimabara Castle, is located in Shimabara-city in Nagasaki-ken, and was built by Matsukura Shigemasa in 1624, having spent the period of seven years.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Japan/General_Tips-Japan-R-4.html (747 words)

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		Shimabara and the surrounding area were totally changed since the day when the roaring sounds of the thunderbolt shook the sky.
		Then the castle Shimabara, which lay in the center of the area, was becoming more and more sinister day by day and the tragic changes and disasters continued to spread.
		If you fail to get to the castle within the allotted time, you fight only the person to whom you spoke in the beginning, and receive a "bad ending," which is untranslated, oddly enough.
	www.uvi.edu /cerit/stxcclub/dough/game_faq/ss4faq.txt (8180 words)

	What is the "Land of the Eastern Cross"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Shimabara Rebellion was an uprising of Japanese peasants, many of them Christians, during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
		A Rōnin (Japanese: 浪人) means literally, "wave man - one who is tossed about, like a wave in the sea" and was a name given to masterless samurai during the feudal period of Japan that lasted from 1185 to 1868.
		In Shimabara, rebels besieged Shimabara castle and took over the fortress at Hara with 500 samurai and gathered 800 more from Omura.
	www.flex.com /~davidhs/japan/landeasterncross.html (455 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		The shogun responded by dispatching 120,000 troops to the castle which quashed the uprising.
		Shimbara Castle is located in the town of Shimabara in eastern Nagasaki Prefecture.
		Construction of the castle was completed in 1625 and is true to the classic Azuchi Momoyama style of architecture.
	www.japancorner.com /nagasaki.asp (1238 words)

	shimabara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After breakfast we biked about a mile under sunny skies to Shimabara Castle, a tower dating to 1618.
		Christians were persecuted and the religion was driven underground in Shimabara in the 1600s.
		In 1637, the people of Shimabara, led by 16-year-old Amakusa Shiro, rebelled and occupied Hara Castle for 90 days, then ended their lives in martyrdom.
	www.ltolman.org /japan2000/shimabara.htm (105 words)

	SAMURAI SHOWDOWN RAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shimabara in Hizen was struck by a lightning storm.
		It was "he," Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, who was the owner of the evil castle.
		This act caused a wave of evil to emanate from the castle,
	atdpweb.soe.berkeley.edu /2130/dross/mugenland.html (243 words)

	Untitled Document
		This is a shot of our group in front of the Shimabara Castle that has the museum inside.
		This flag is a recreation of the flag of the Shimabara rebellion.
		All of Paul's children had all but their thumbs and pinkies removed because the in the soldier's eyes Christians were less than animals so they should have less fingers than animals.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/asian-studies/projects/kakurekirishitan/shimabarapics.html (1194 words)

	PRACTICALITIES, Shimabara Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		Shimabara straggles along the coast for more than 2km from its southerly Shin-ko ferry terminal to the main centre, Ote, just below the castle.
		Shimabara's information office (daily 9am-5pm; tel and fax 0957/62-3986) is inside the Shin-ko terminal building.
		Shimabara's speciality food, guzoni, consists of clam broth packed with rice-cakes, fish, pork, lotus root, tofu and egg.
	www.infohub.com /Destinations/Asia/Japan/Shimabara/71905.htm (378 words)

	Okinawa and Nagasaki
		The castle was important in the early history of Christianity in Japan.
		At Shimabara Castle there are various artifacts (principally Buddhist images) inside of which people hid their Christian images.
		Unfortunately, it was at the end of a long and grueling "educational" trip and the students were indifferent, to say the least, to the exhibits.
	www.biz2web.com /grant/c15.htm (2660 words)

	yoshiwara nikki: unzen
		Beyond the resort town, the area is famous for other reasons - the lord of Shimabara Castle, at the base of the mountains, led a Christian revolt that was ruthlessly crushed by the Tokugawa military government in the 1600s.
		On the right was the Shimabara Peninsula, but on the left - visible for only a few minutes before the boat turned - was the hazy peak of Aso-san, another active volcano located in Kumamoto, near the center of Kyushu.
		I spent most of my energy trying to get to the castle; despite being enormous and on a hill, not to mention a famous sight, it seemed that every road I took curved away at the last minute and led everywhere but the castle.
	www.crankyuser.com /mali/writing/unzen.html (6028 words)

	JapanDiscovery: Nagasaki \| nagasaki, bombing of nagasaki, nagasaki japan
		The Christians did put up some initial resistance, with the Nagasaki Shimabara enclave of destitute Christians and local peasants rising in rebellion in 1637.
		Ultimately numbering 40,000, they captured Shimabara Castle and humiliated the local daimyo.
		The Dutch demonstrated that they were interested in trading alone, and demonstrated their commitment during the Shimabara Rebellion by firing on those Christians in support of the shogun.
	www.japandiscovery.com /cities/nagasaki/history_early.html (484 words)

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		Next to the castle there is a street
		This view is from the top of the castle.
		Just a little taste of how crowded it gets over here…..and remember, this is a country city.
	www.megapathdsl.net /~duke/japanshane/BlankPage3.htm (169 words)

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		The Shimabara region was a domain of the famous Christian warlord Arima Harunobu.
		The castle was too large for a ruler of the land capable of producing only 40,000 koku.
		His castle in Miyazu was near one of the most famous scenic beauty
	www.geocities.jp /general_sasaki/hosokawa_gracia_eng.html (3202 words)

	Learn more about List of castles in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Learn more about List of castles in the online encyclopedia.
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
		The List of castles is a link page for any castle in the sense of a fortified building.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_castles.html (119 words)

	From the 7th Chapter
		During the Shimabara Rebellion, his armor being still at the encampment, Shugyo Echizen no kami Tanenao participated in the fight dressed only in hakama and haori.
		At the time of the attack on the castle at Shimabara, Tazaki Geki was wearing very resplendent armor.
		In the Province of wizen there was a certain man from Take who, although he had contracted smallpox, was considering joining the forces attacking the castle at Shimabara.
	webpages.charter.net /sn9/philosophy/hagakure/hagaku07.html (3087 words)

	Bodoki-Ryu Ninjitsu Dojo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the last known battles involving Koga ninja was the battle of Shimabara No Ran, when rebel Samurai occupied the Hara castle in Shimabara.
		They took only 15 days to return a detailed map of the castle and forces.
		The last known soke of Koga Ryu is believed to be Fujita Seiko (1899-1966) who claimed to be the 14th soke.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/bodokininjitsu.net (769 words)

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