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The Shimabara Rebellion: How Portugal Lost Japan
In 1637, a massive uprising of Christian peasants and ronin in the Shimabara domain of Japan shook the Tokugawa shogunate to its core. Led by the teenage messiah Amakusa Shiro, the rebels fortified Hara Castle and held out against a besieging army of over 100,000 men. Portugal, which had fostered a lucrative Nanban trade in Japan for a century, was caught in the fallout: the shogunate accused Portuguese missionaries of instigating the rebellion, and the Dutch VOC provided cannons and ships to crush it. This episode tells the story of the siege, the betrayal, and the brutal aftermath. When the…
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