On this day, 388 years ago, on December 17, 1637 (November 2, 1637, the Shimahara Rebellion broke out in Japan. On December 17, 1637, the Shimahara Rebellion broke out in Japan. On the same day, tens of thousands of Catholics in Japan's Kyushu Special Prefecture, led by the 16-year-old Shiro Toshiba Akikusa, launched a riot against the oppression and religious persecution of the shogunate and lord Katsuya Matsukura. The rebels quickly occupied the original city in the southern part of the Shimahara Peninsula and erected a cross on the city. Comments: The largest peasant uprising in the Edo period made the establishment of the Futokugawa shogunate feel a crisis, and the Matsukura family was eventually dismissed.