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Amakusa Shiro at Hara Castle: A Young Symbol in the Surviving Evidence
The Shimabara-Amakusa uprising of 1637–1638 is often remembered through its young leader, Amakusa Shiro. Follow the Hara Castle ruins, a Eucharistic banner, besiegers' letters and a claim of military merit to place his symbolic role within the history of the people around him.
