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	Shimabara Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shimabara Rebellion (ja: 島原の乱, shimabara no ran) was an uprising of Japanese peasants, many of them Christians, during the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1637-1638.
		Rebellion broke out on (according to western calendar) December 17, 1637 when peasants rose against their daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu.
		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 (512 words)

	Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It may therefore be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from civil disobedience to a violent organized attempt to destroy established authority.
		For example, the Boxer rebellion was an uprising against Western commercial and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century, and the Jacobite Risings which attempted to restore the deposed Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland were called the Jacobite Rebellions by the government.
		A violent rebellion is sometimes referred to as an insurgency while a larger one may escalate into a civil war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rebellion (391 words)

	WISHES
		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.
		As a sequel to the rebellion, the Hara fortress was destroyed and the lands of Arima and Amakusa together were divided among various lords.
		Whether pre-modern peasant rebellions were laced with millennial objectives or whether peasants were driven to rebel out of economic hardship, often exacerbated by rapacious tax burdens and other political impositions, is also a question that has engaged modern historians leading to an impressive and complex literature.
	www.uwosh.edu /home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/correa.html (3255 words)

	1623. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The peasants of the peninsula of Shimabara and the island of Amakusa, near Nagasaki (on the island of Ky sh
		The Portuguese traders were expelled because of suspicions concerning their complicity in the Shimabara Rebellion.
		Two successive abortive coups at Edo were the last rebellions the Tokugawa had to face until the 19th century.
	www.bartleby.com /67/860.html (527 words)

	Historic Battles
		This was a part of the Tokugawa move to isolate the country and to remove western influences from Japan.
		This is the Christian rebellion mentioned in RK episodes 67-76 mostly by Amakusa Shougo.
		Rebellion of the samurai class lead by Saigo Takamori against the corrupt ministers of the emperor and in response to the treatment of former samurai who had lost there place when the Meiji came to power.
	www.sakabatouzanbatou.com /Battles.html (719 words)

	Shimabara Rebellion, 1637-1638(Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Shimabara Rebellion broke out on 17 December 1637 as peasants mainly Christian rose in revolt against their brutal daimyo or lord Matsukura Shigeharu.
		Despite this the revolt failed to capture the castles of Shimabara and Tomioka without which the revolt was doomed to failure.
		The end of the rebellion marked the end of the last serious opposition to the Tokugawa regime.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/wars_shimabara.html (175 words)

	AMADOU - LoveToKnow Article on AMADOU
		It has no high mountains, but its surface being very hillyfour of the peaks rise to a height over 1500 ft.the natives resort to the terrace system of cultivation with remarkable success.
		A number of the heads of the Christians executed in connection with the Shimabara rebellion in the first half of the I7th century were buried in this island.
		Amakusa produces a little coal and fine kaolin, which was largely used in former times by the potters of Hirado and Satsuma.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AM/AMADOU.htm (224 words)

	Nagasaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		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.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Nagasaki (1090 words)

	Amakusa Shiro Tokisada and the Christian Rebels of Shimabara, Japan, 1637 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Now, in Shimabara, Roman Catholicism had been the faith of thousands, since their lord Konishi Yukinaga himself was a Catholic.
		In 1644 a Governor was sent to administer Shimabara and Nagasaki, and that's the way it would be for good; the people there were to be ruled by (Buddhist) total strangers from then on.
		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.geocities.com /nobukaze23/shimabara.htm (2311 words)

	Siege of Hara (1637-1638) (Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Siege was the main action in the Shimabara Rebellion.
		Despite the poor state of repair and old design of the castle initial assaults using catapults, tunnelling and ninja under the command of Itakura Shigemasa failed to capture the fortress.
		The castle fell and all inside were killed including women and children who fought to the dead along with the garrison.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_hara.html (214 words)

	Shimabara Arc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		A stray master of the Hiten Mitsurugi, taught to him by his uncle, and leader of the Christians in Shimabara.
		He is believed by his followers to be the son of God and is said to perform miracles, which are actually the result of astrology and western medicine.
		The man who was the power behind the 'Christian rebellion' in Shimabara.
	www.sakabatouzanbatou.com /TMShimabara.html (724 words)

	Aoki - Ayukawa
		He ruled the Shimabara area of Hizen but was steadily weakened in wars with the Ryûzôji.
		He had first to contend with a short-lived rebellion that ensued as a result of his ascension, then worked to expand the Asakura domain, clashing with the Togashi of Kaga (1494, 1504), the ikko-ikki of Echizen, and the Rokkaku of Ômi.
		Norikage was the youngest son of Asakura Toshikage and became a pillar of the Asakura house.
	www.samurai-archives.com /dictionary/A2.html (6601 words)

	National Console Support, Inc \| Welcome \| Willkommen \| Bienvenido \| Benvenuti
		Based on the 1981 movie that was inspired by the novel "Makai Tensei" (Samurai Reincarnation) by Yamada Fuutarou, players adopt the persona of 16-year old Amakusa Shirou Tokisada who led a farmer's rebellion (The Shimabara Uprising) against the Matsukura ruling family in 1638.
		Squeezed by overbearing taxes as mandated by Matsukura Shigemasa, the ruler of the Shimabara territory - who used the levies to build an extravagant castle, farmers were persecuted and tortured if they refused to pay.
		Despite some military successes, the rebellion was eventually put down in a last stand at Hara Castle on February 28,1638 by a force of 124,000 men sent from the ruling Edo Bakufu (Bakufu means tent government - since the military forces lived in tents).
	www.ncsx.com /2005/ncs010305/makai.htm (353 words)

	sengoku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The final blow came with the Shimabara Rebellion in 1637.
		The rebellion was not at first a religious one.
		The Shimabara rebellion led to the bakufu to outlaw contact with the outside world.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~copeland/sengoku.html (375 words)

	Nagasaki, Nagasaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		A brutal campaign of persecution followed, with thousands across Nagasaki and other parts of Japan killed or tortured.
		The Dutch had been quietly making inroads into Japan during this time, despite the shogunate's official policy of ending foreign influence within the country.
		The Dutch demonstrated that they were interested in trading alone, and demonstrated their commitment during the Shimabara rebellion by firing on the Christians in support of the shogun.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/n/na/nagasaki__nagasaki.html (920 words)

	Shi: The Motion Picture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		This foreign religion was viewed by many -- including the Buddhist sohei -- as a corrupting influence on the culture of Japan.
		Following the brutal suppression of the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637-1638, many of these peaceful people, like the sohei before them, began to secretly train in the ways of warfare.
		Today the descendents of these two shadow societies -- the sohei, and the Christian Undosenshi -- find themselves still fighting battles in a war effor they are pledged to for centuries...
	www.maida.net /shi/movie.html (153 words)

	Shimabara Rebellion
		The Shimabara Rebellion was an uprising of Japanese peasants, many of them Christians, during the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1637-1638.
		The Shogunate banned Christianity and the remaining Japanese Christians had to go underground.
		From this time until the 1860s, no major battles took place in Japan.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/shimabara_rebellion (540 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		Nagasaki Kunchi (Oct. 7-9) is a culturally diverse festival which takes place at the Suwa Shrine in the city of Nagasaki.
		Then in 1637 some 40,000 disgruntled Christians and local peasants staged the Shimabara Rebellion and captured Nagasaki’s Hara Castle.
		Shimbara Castle is located in the town of Shimabara in eastern Nagasaki Prefecture.
	www.japancorner.com /nagasaki.asp (1238 words)

	Nagasaki, Japan
		In 1637, in the Nagasaki enclave of Shimabara, vagabond Christians and local peasants mired in penury erupted into Japans most startling rebellion.
		In fact, during the Shimabara rebellion, the Dutch were ordered to fire on the Christians in a test of loyalty.
		In 1641, their grudging (if not damning) loyalty won them Dejima, an artificial island in Nagasaki Bay, to which their activities would be confined.
	worldfacts.us /Japan-Nagasaki.htm (1554 words)

	Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It may thus be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from a mild flouting of social norms to a violent organized attempt to destroy established authority.
		The Open Source Movement has been called a "rebellion" against closed source software and.
		This page was last modified 02:24, 20 Jun 2005.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Insurrection (410 words)

	Patriotes Rebellion Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		For example, the Boxer rebellion was an uprising against Western worldWestern commercecommercial and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century, and the Jacobite Risings which attempted to restore the deposed House of StuartStuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland were called the ''Jacobite Rebellions'' by the government.
		* 1848: Fenian rebellion (also known as the Young Irelanders' Rebellion of 1848)
		* The Open Source Movement has been called a "rebellion" against closed source software and intellectual capitalism.
	www.echostatic.com /Patriotes_Rebellion.html (365 words)

	What is Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		A rebellion is an armed resistance to an established government.
		Other words for a rebellion include: revolt, uprising, insurrection, and insurgency.
		Some of these words, especially rebellion and revolt, often have a pejorative connotation while uprising or insurrection are preferred by rebels (insurgents, freedom fighters) themselves.
	www.whatis.tv /Insurrection.html (166 words)

	Japan in 17th lectures
		Shimabara Rebellion 1637: Arima Harunobu’s son Naozumi showed his loyalty to the Tokugawa by recanting his faith and vigorously trying to persuade the people of his domain to also give up their faith.
		In 1637 the domain had a poor harvest, but the new daimyo Matsukura strictly levied his rice tax.
		The peasants, who were largely Christian, rose in protest=> Shimabara Rebellion.
	www.hist.umn.edu /~nagata/3472Tokugawa17th.html (1664 words)

	Hagakure
		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.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /duchamp/410/hag7.html (3095 words)

	Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire . Timeline - 1600s \| PBS
		The policy effectively curtailed the power of the daimyo, depleting their treasuries and leaving little money for armies.
		Taxed near to starvation, peasants on the Shimabara Peninsula near Nagasaki revolted against the local daimyo, swarming into the abandoned Hara Castle.
		After the Shimabara Rebellion, Iemitsu increasingly viewed Chritianity as a threat to the stability of Japan.
	www.pbs.org /empires/japan/timeline_1600.html (1667 words)

	Jesus Otaku: Francis Xavier & Paul Anjiro - 1548
		And we in the Church would probably like to forget that Christianity came to Japan on the boats of merchants and slave traders.
		We'd like to forget the Christian rebellion (the Shimabara Revolt) of 1637-1638, and we'd like to forget the Daimyos who, with Jesuit approval, ordered their subjects to tear down pagan temples and force mass conversions of their subjects.
		Most of all, we'd like to forget that the persecution of Christians was so thorough, and that so many apostasized.
	jesus-otaku.blogspot.com /2005/03/francis-xavier-paul-anjiro-1548.html (1074 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		When he was 50 years old, he reappeared suddenly in Kyushu, and became a guest of the Ogasawara family of Kokura han.
		After the Shimabara Rebellion, he became a guest of the Hosokawa family in 1640.
		He was given a mansion at the foot of Kumamoto castle.
	www.jinenkan.com /Articlebook5rings.htm (716 words)

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