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Shimabara/Amakusa

Amakusa Christian Museum

・Amakusa Christian Museum is the Amakusa region’s oldest museum, established in 1966 by the former Hondo City.
・The museum renovated in 2010 introduces the history of Amakusa under the four themes of “Amakusa’s Christian history,” “European culture imported to Japan and Amakusa,” the “Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion,” and the “Resurgence of Amakusa after the Rebellion and Christianity.”
・One of the exhibits is the “Rinzuji chakushoku seitai hisekizu sashimono” (Amakusa Shiro Battle Flag) actually used in the Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion, which is a National Important Cultural Property and is regularly exhibited to the public as a valuable material representing the history of Christians in Japan.

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Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion

［Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion］ The Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion was an uprising caused by an alliance of peasants in the southern part of Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Islands from 1637 to 1638. More than 20,000 people joined the rebel forces, with Amakusa Shiro as their commander-in-chief. They fought barricaded themselves in Hara Castle but were suppressed by the Shogunate forces.

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