Shimabara can refer to any of the following:
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Shimabara, Nagasaki
270px, Shimabara City Hall
270px, view from Shimabara Castle
270px, view from Shimabara port of Mount Unzen
270px, The old samurai residence town Shimabara
is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. , the city had an estimated p ...
, a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
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Shimabara Peninsula
The is a peninsula located in Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The peninsula incorporates the cities of Shimabara, Minamishimabara, and Unzen.
The northern, eastern, and southeastern coasts of the peninsula face the Ariake ...
, the geographic feature that hosts Shimabara, Nagasaki
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Shimabara Castle
, also known as and , is a Japanese castle located in Shimabara, Hizen Province (present day Nagasaki prefecture). This five-story white building stands in stark contrast to the black Kumamoto Castle in neighboring Kumamoto Prefecture.
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, in Shimabara, Nagasaki
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Shimabara Rebellion
The , also known as the or , was an rebellion, uprising that occurred in the Shimabara Domain of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638.
Matsukura Katsuie, the ''daimyō'' of the Shimabara Domain, enforced unpo ...
(also known as the Battle or Siege of Shimabara), a 1637 uprising of residents of the Nagasaki area against the Shōgun's anti-Christian policies
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Shimabara, Kyoto
(often simplified to , sometimes styled ), established in 1640, was the designated red light district () in Kyoto. Following the outlawing of sex work in Japan, it went defunct as a red-light district in the 1950s but continued as a geisha dist ...
, an entertainment quarter in Kyoto, Japan
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