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Shimabara Rebellion
The Shimabara Rebellion was an uprising of peasants, many of them Christians, and masterless samurai on the Shimabara Peninsula and the Amakusa islands of Kyushu in 1637–1638, provoked by heavy taxation, famine and persecution. Led nominally by the youth Amakusa Shirō, the rebels held Hara Castle until it was stormed by a shogunal army of over 100,000 men. Its suppression was followed by the expulsion of the Portuguese and a stricter ban on Christianity.
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