We enter Shimabara Castle with Jorge Orpianesi

In this edition, Jorge Orpianesi, specialist in Japan and author of “Route of the Samurai” invites you to tour Shimabara Castle and its samurai museum.

The castle was built in 1624 and has imposing walls up to 10 meters high.

Inside you will find one of the most complete samurai samples in all of Japan.

Walk through Nara, the first capital of Japan, with Jorge Orpianesi

An important event in the country’s history, “the Shimabara Rebellion”, took place in Shimabara. It was an armed uprising of Japanese peasants, specifically Catholic Christians, in the Edo period, during the persecution of Christians called Kirishitan.

The castle was built in 1624 and has imposing walls up to 10 meters high.

This was one of the few major conflicts during the relatively peaceful Tokugawa shogunate.

We invite you to follow the work of Jorge Orpianesi, a specialist in Japan and author of The Samurai Route, who toured the “Country of the Rising Sun” visiting the places where the most important milestones in samurai history took place, achieving an abundant compendium of information. and personal experiences that he shares in his book.

Find all the articles by Jorge Orpianesi in ReporteAsia at this link.