This is a battle painting of the Shimabarra Rebellion (1637)to suppress the Christians where Musashi was hit by a rock to the head in route to the battle. As a result he requested that he and his troops be allowed to withdraw. With the elimination of the foreign contamination the Tokugawa Bakufu moved to close the country that would eventually be pried open about 300 years later. This in turn brought about the downfall of the Bakufu and was the catalyst for the Meiji Reformation and Japan's drive for modernity.
1 Comment
|
AuthorRick Categories
All
Archives
January 2017
|