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Amakusa Shirō Tokisada was a 17th century Japanese Catholic from the Amakusa islands who participated in the Shimabara Rebellion against daimyo Matsukura Katsuie over heavy taxation and persecution of Christians. The rebellion was suppressed, and Amakusa was beheaded at the age of 17; Matsukura would subsequently be deposed by the shogun, though Christian persecution in Japan would not end until the 1870s after the Meiji Restoration | Amakusa Shirō Tokisada was a 17th century Japanese Catholic from the Amakusa islands who participated in the Shimabara Rebellion against daimyo Matsukura Katsuie over heavy taxation and persecution of Christians. The rebellion was suppressed, and Amakusa was beheaded at the age of 17; Matsukura would subsequently be deposed by the shogun, though Christian persecution in Japan would not end until the 1870s after the Meiji Restoration. | ||
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