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The Last Samurai: Portugal's 1637 Shimabara Uprising
In 1637, a rebellion of Japanese Christians and disaffected samurai in the Shimabara domain brought the Portuguese presence in Japan to a bloody end. Led by the teenage charismatic Amakusa Shiro, the rebels held out for months in Hara Castle against a 125,000-strong Tokugawa army. Lucas and Luna explore the uprising's roots in persecution under shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, the role of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries, and the brutal suppression that followed. They discuss the siege tactics, the rebels' desperate faith, and the aftermath: the final expulsion of the Portuguese and the…
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