The Shimabara Rebellion was a peasant uprising that occurred from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638 in Japan's southern island of Kyushu. #History #ShimabaraRebellion #Samurai #EdoPeriod #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Shimabara_Rebellion/

The plight of 16-year-old Jerome Amakusa, the supposed leader of the rebellion, and the rebels who accompanied him are at once instantly recognisable to contemporary readers, and yet they were alien, by design, to the populace of Edo Period Japan. #History #EdoPeriod #Nagasaki #Samuri #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/373/christs-samurai-the-true-story-of-the-shimabara-re/

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Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646-1709) governed Japan as the fifth shogun of the Edo period (1603-1876). He has often been ridiculed as the 'dog shogun' because of the laws he enacted to protect the lives of animals. Economically, however, the period of his rule was one of prosperity, and culturally, it was one of the most brilliant in Japanese history.
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Edo Castle was a large castle built by the Tokugawa family in 17th-century Japan. It served as their seat of government for more than 260 years. After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Edo became the capital of Japan and was renamed Tokyo. Edo Castle became the residence of the imperial family and was renamed the Imperial Palace. https://www.worldhistory.org/Edo_Castle/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia #history #TokugawaIeyasu #MeijiRestoration #EdoPeriod