Amakusa Shirō
天草四郎
c. 1621–1638
Boy figurehead of the Shimabara Rebellion
Also written: Amakusa Shirō · 天草四郎
The charismatic sixteen-year-old under whose banner some 37,000 rebels held Hara Castle against the shogunate through the winter of 1637–38. His head went to Nagasaki; his rising confirmed the bakufu's resolve to expel the Portuguese for good.
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