POLITICIAN

Amakusa Shirō

1621 - 1638

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Masuda Shirō Tokisada (益田 四郎 時貞, c. 1621? – 28 February 1638), also known as Amakusa Shirō (天草 四郎), was a Japanese Christian of the Edo period and leader of the Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising of Japanese Roman Catholics against the Shogunate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amakusa Shirō has received more than 886,620 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Amakusa Shirō is the 4,080th most popular politician (up from 4,393rd in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Japan (up from 245th in 2019) and the 88th most popular Japanese Politician.

Amakusa Shirō is most famous for leading the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637-38, which was the last major uprising against the Tokugawa shogunate.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Amakusa Shirō ranks 4,080 out of 19,576. Before him are Ferdinand Čatloš, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Artabanus IV of Parthia, Eleanor de' Medici, Parysatis, and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. After him are Gitanas Nausėda, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Liu Biao, Justa Grata Honoria, Zoran Milanović, and Said bin Taimur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Amakusa Shirō ranks 3. Before him are Jean de La Fontaine, and Louis, Grand Condé. After him are George II Rákóczi, Thomas Willis, Petar Zrinski, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Allaert van Everdingen, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Isaac van Ostade, and Shi Lang. Among people deceased in 1638, Amakusa Shirō ranks 6. Before him are Cornelius Jansen, Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg, Adriaen Brouwer, Ivan Gundulić, and François Leclerc du Tremblay. After him are Johannes Althusius, Cyril Lucaris, John Harvard, Cornelis van Haarlem, Peter Minuit, and Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Amakusa Shirō ranks 231 out of 6,245. Before him are Kyu Sakamoto (1941), Emperor Ankō (401), Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), Mikao Usui (1865), Fujiko Fujio (1934), and Kenichi Fukui (1918). After him are Emperor Go-Kameyama (1347), Yosano Akiko (1878), Hōjō Tokimune (1251), Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), Kenji Tochio (1941), and Setsuko Hara (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Amakusa Shirō ranks 88. Before him are Empress Jingū (169), Emperor Sutoku (1119), Emperor Kenzō (450), Emperor Ankō (401), Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), and Fujiko Fujio (1934). After him are Emperor Go-Kameyama (1347), Hōjō Tokimune (1251), Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), Emperor Ninken (449), Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358), and Fujiwara no Michinaga (966).

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