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was the first son of the Christian daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
 Arima Harunobu
Arima Harunobu

Arima Harunobu was the second son and successor of Japanese daimyo Arima Yoshisada. Harunobu was born in the castle of Arima and controlled the Shimabara area of Hizen province....
. He was baptized as a child with the name Miguel. He was born in Hinoe Castle in Shimabara
Shimabara, Nagasaki

is a cities of Japan located on the north-eastern tip of the Shimabara Peninsula, facing Ariake Bay in the east and Mount Unzen in the west, in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan....
 but was sent by his father to work beside Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
 at the age of 15. He married Konishi Yukinaga
Konishi Yukinaga

Konishi Yukinaga was a Japanese Christian daimyo under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was the son of a wealthy Sakai merchant, Konishi Ryusa.In 1587, during the Invasion of Kyushu, he quelled the local uprising in Higo province and was awarded a fief in that province....
's niece Marta; however, in order to curry favor with Ieyasu, he divorced his Christian wife and married Ieyasu's adopted daughter Kuni-hime in 1610. In 1612, he inherited his father's land valued at 40,000 koku
Koku

The is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres....
 in Shimabara when his father was executed for his role in the Okamoto Daihachi Incident.






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was the first son of the Christian daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
 Arima Harunobu
Arima Harunobu

Arima Harunobu was the second son and successor of Japanese daimyo Arima Yoshisada. Harunobu was born in the castle of Arima and controlled the Shimabara area of Hizen province....
. He was baptized as a child with the name Miguel. He was born in Hinoe Castle in Shimabara
Shimabara, Nagasaki

is a cities of Japan located on the north-eastern tip of the Shimabara Peninsula, facing Ariake Bay in the east and Mount Unzen in the west, in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan....
 but was sent by his father to work beside Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
 at the age of 15. He married Konishi Yukinaga
Konishi Yukinaga

Konishi Yukinaga was a Japanese Christian daimyo under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was the son of a wealthy Sakai merchant, Konishi Ryusa.In 1587, during the Invasion of Kyushu, he quelled the local uprising in Higo province and was awarded a fief in that province....
's niece Marta; however, in order to curry favor with Ieyasu, he divorced his Christian wife and married Ieyasu's adopted daughter Kuni-hime in 1610. In 1612, he inherited his father's land valued at 40,000 koku
Koku

The is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres....
 in Shimabara when his father was executed for his role in the Okamoto Daihachi Incident. Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered a general persecution of all Christians in Japan, and Naozumi immediately gave up his Christian belief, exiled his former wife and secretly killed his two half brothers– 8-year old Francisco and 6-year old Mathias.

However, he was dissatisfied with the constant revolts and chaos as a result of the Christian persecution and asked the Shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
 to transfer him to Nobeoka
Nobeoka, Miyazaki

is the northernmost cities of Japan located in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan....
 in Hyuga Province
Hyuga Province

Hyuga was an old provinces of Japan of Japan on the east coast of Kyushu, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki prefecture. Hyuga bordered on Bungo Province, Higo Province, Osumi Province, and Satsuma Provinces....
. When Shimabara Rebellion
Shimabara Rebellion

The was an rebellion largely involving Japanese peasants, most of them Christianity, in 1637?1638 during the Edo period. It was also one of only a handful of instances of serious unrest during the relatively peaceful period of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule....
 broke out in his old fief in 1637, he answered the call of the Shogunate and led a 4000 detachment to suppress the rebellion. He died in 1641, during his sankin kotai
Sankin kotai

Sankin kotai was a policy of the shogunate during most of the Edo period of History of Japan. The purpose was to control the daimyo. In adopting the policy, the shogunate was continuing and refining similar policies of Toyotomi Hideyoshi....
 in Osaka.