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The example of these Japanese martyrs encouraged a number of others, who kept their faith in secret. Lord of Shimabara Mihail Arima tried to preserve his domain by renouncing his Christian faith, but he was exiled and his estates were given to Matsukura Shigemasa. In other regions, authorities also persistently searched for and punished hidden ...
The Battle of Okitanawate (沖田畷の戦い), also known as the Battle of Shimabara, was fought on May 3 of 1584 between the combined forces of the Shimazu and Arima clans, and the Ryūzōji army. Ryūzōji Takanobu was attacking a number of independent clans close to his territories.
During the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637-1638, he led an army of 4000 troops against the Kirishitan rebels, many of whom were former Arima vassals. In 1692, Arima Kiyozumi was transferred (i.e. demoted) from Nobeoka Domain to Itoigawa Domain (50,000 koku ) in Echigo Province due to mismanagement of his domains which resulted in a peasant revolt.
Shimabara Castle Matsudaira Tadakazu, final daimyo of Shimabara Domain. Shimabara Domain (島原藩, Shimabara-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. [1] [2] Originally known as Hinoe Domain, its administrative center was initially established at Hinoe Castle in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture.
However, in Shimabara Domain (formerly the Hinoe Domain), Arima Naozumi apostatized and pursued a campaign of persecution of Christians, killing even his two half-brothers, aged 8 and 6. [6] He was transferred to Nobeoka in Hyūga Province in mid-1614, leaving behind a restive Christian population that would instigate the Shimabara Rebellion in ...
By the Sengoku period, the Arima clan had conquered the various powers within Shimabara Peninsula. Arima Takazumi built Hara Castle as a subsidiary castle to Hinoe Castle and during his rule, the Arima clan's territory reached its largest, growing to 210,000 koku and controlling most of Hizen Province. The Arima earned enormous profit from ...
Arima Harunobu (有馬 晴信, 1567 – June 5, 1612) was a Japanese samurai lord who was the daimyo of Shimabara Domain and the head of the Hizen-Arima clan from Hizen Province. In his early years, he was a retainer of Ryūzōji clan .
The Shimabara Rebellion (島原の乱, Shimabara no ran), also known as the Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion (島原･天草の乱, Shimabara-Amakusa no ran) or Shimabara-Amakusa Ikki (島原･天草一揆), was an uprising that occurred in the Shimabara Domain of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638.