Martial History

Shimabarra rebellion 1637

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.