About the arrival of Cao Tian.

Amakusa Shirō (ぁまくさしろぅ, 162 1 year? -1638 April 12), whose real name was Yitian Shizhen and later renamed Cao Tianshen, was the original rebellion of Kyushu Island in the Edo period in Japan (1637 June165438 February +06 June1638 April 66)

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In some records, Amakusa Shirō also wrote Shiro Xiao Ye or Shiro Jiangbu. According to textual research, his original name should be Yitian, but he is the second son of Konishi Yukinaga's retainer Yitian. His real name is Yitian Shizhen, and his father Yi tianhao is the retainer of Konishi Yukinaga. Later, Tokisada was adopted by Cao Tianjinbai and renamed Cao Tianshen. Cao Tian was brilliant since he was a child, known as a child prodigy, and had a handsome appearance. A fortune teller once said to Cao Tian, "You have a noble face and should have mastered the world. Unfortunately, you were born in the Tokugawa era and it is difficult to achieve great things." After the war, Konishi Yukinaga was beheaded, his territory was changed, and his ministers were scattered into ronins. It is said that Shiro Shizhen has lived in Nagasaki Port since childhood, and he has a deep Catholic faith. He also learned western medical skills from the Dutch living in Japan-the so-called miraculous, living dead, Bai Gujing, is probably not completely groundless.

Peter said that Bancang Chongchang came to the original city of Shimashima, and gathered the surrounding governors, including Matsukura Katsuya, Kushima Katsumo and Ma Shifeng, and assembled military forces to launch a fierce attack on the original city. Chongchang didn't think so at first, thinking that the peasants who engaged in rebellion had no fists and courage and didn't know how to fight at all. How can they be opponents of the shogunate? However, we suffered heavy losses after two consecutive general attacks failed. Chongchang couldn't help sweating and realized that someone in the city must know the art of war.

Kitakyushu region is the center of Catholic communication. In the late Warring States period, a large number of civilians and even warriors converted to Catholicism. After the "great martyrdom", these people were forced to lurk and use this turmoil to rise again. Therefore, it is not only tens of thousands of peasants who stick to the original city, but also many ronins who believe in Catholicism-Silang Shizhen is the leader of these ronins first.

The following year is the 15th year of Kuanyong (1638). On New Year's Day, Bancang rushed to crustily skin of head and launched the third general attack, but was killed by stray bullets in the lower half of the original city. As a result, morale is high, and powerful governors such as Shimadzu and Ida will echo everywhere, and the Tokugawa shogunate, which persecuted Catholics, will be eliminated in one fell swoop. General Guang Jia sent the second Allied Commander-in-Chief, a senior official, Matsuhei Izu to keep his promise.

Songping New Port, known as the "Izu of Wisdom", after carefully observing the situation at the front line, realized that the original city was firmly defended and fought bravely, and it was absolutely impossible to attack hard. So Xingang commanded more than a dozen vassal armies, including Kuroda, Kojima, Lihua, Hosokawa Morihiro, Mizuno and Ma You. , and firmly blocked the original city by land, cut off supplies, and tried to starve all the swallows to death.

Shiro Shizhen also expects the Dutch in Nagasaki to come to the rescue. However, at the instigation of Songping New Port, the Dutch gunboat sailed to the waters near the original city on 1 month 1 1, and then fired several shots at the city. On the one hand, it tells the city that the sea has been blocked by the shogunate and no one can escape. On the other hand, I also hope to psychologically disintegrate the fighting spirit of the city-how credible is Catholicism? What's the use of God? Are the Dutch who also believe in the so-called "God" not enemies of your?

The strategy of loosening and stretching the card has achieved results. There was less and less food and grass in the original city, and it was forced to attack the Kaicheng shogunate camp at night, because Nobunaga was prepared and suffered a fiasco. Not only that, Songping Xingang learned the inside story of the city by interrogating prisoners, so it launched its first general attack on February 28.

Under the desperate resistance of a slap in the face, the shogunate army paid a heavy price of 3 thousand deaths and tens of thousands of injuries. But in the end, the original city was captured, and the remaining 20,000 people in the city, men and women, old and young, were all slaughtered-Shiro Shizhen and others were among them, and almost no one could escape.

Literary description

The Metamorphosis of the Underworld is a magical story of Futaro Yamada, a Japanese writer, who tells the story of Amakusa Shirō and his follower Anpin who were angry with God's silence after the fall of the city, fell into the underworld after their death and rebelled by returning to the world through metempsychosis. On the one hand, they jointly coveted Tokugawa, the warlord of Jizhou, to proclaim the throne [1], and on the other hand, they called the demons of the underworld, hoping to overthrow Tokugawa Guang Jia, who was behind the suppression of the island's original rebellion. The people in the underworld summoned by Shiro are all swordsmen who had unfinished ambitions before their death or at the end of their lives, including Araki Taiweimen [2], the greatest swordsman in history, Hozuoin Yin Rong [3], the fencing director of the Tokugawa family, Musashi Miyamoto [4], Yagyu Ma Danshou [5] and Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first generation general of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Amakusa Shirō, who is burdened with the blood of believers, will face the greatest enemy not the Tokugawa shogunate, but a generation of swordsman Yagyu Ten Soldiers [7], who will stop Amakusa Shirō and the demons reincarnated from the underworld.

It is worth mentioning that two films are adapted from the story of "The Birth of the Underworld". The first film was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, starring Hiroyuki Sanada, O 'Tian Jian II, Sonny Chiba and Ken Ogata. Another recent film was directed by Hideyuki Hirayama in 2003 and starred by Kubo Tsukusuka and Jishou.

The characters in the novel The Charming Story.

Famous sayings of historical celebrities

Amakusa Shirō (the leader of the Japanese Edo Uprising, a famous handsome man): Those who cling to this city at the moment will be friends forever in the afterlife.