Regional1637 – 1638 · 1 year

Shimabara Rebellion

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Shimabara · Kyushu · Japan

Estimated casualties

37Ksingle estimate · no range published

Christian-led peasant uprising in Kyushu, suppressed by shogunate, leading to increased persecution.

Belligerents2

Tokugawa shogunate
Shimabara rebels

ON THE MAPTokugawa Shogunate

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Amakusa1638
Battle of Hara1638

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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