Shimabara Revolt
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Catholic Church, Catholics, Feudalism, Serfs, Peasants
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: Japan
- Date: October, 1637-April 15, 1638
Article abstract: At issue: Oppressive rule of feudal lords and religious persecution against Catholics. Result: Government victory; Shimabara lands partitioned; Japan enters period of isolation.
Background
Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa shogun, celebrated his rise to power in early 1623 by ordering fifty Christians burned at the stake in Edo (modern Tokyo). He persecuted Christians with a cold-blooded fervor and expressed Japan’s official seclusion policy in five separate directives issued between 1633 and 1639 to his two commissioners in...
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