* 1638 – Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.

The Kōga ninja were recruited by shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu against Christian rebels led by Amakusa Shirō, who made a final stand at Hara Castle, in Hizen Province.

The ruins of Hara Castle.

With the fall of Hara Castle, the Shimabara Rebellion came to an end, and Christianity in Japan was forced underground.

The Tokugawa Shogunate sent a force of over 125, 000 troops to suppress the rebellion, and after a lengthy siege against the rebels at Hara Castle, defeated them.

At this point they gathered on the site of Hara Castle, which had been the castle of the Arima clan before their move to the Nobeoka Domain, but was dismantled.

The allied armies of the local domains, under the command of the Tokugawa shogunate with Itakura Shigemasa as commander-in-chief, then began their siege of Hara Castle.

Nicolaes Couckebacker, Opperhoofd of the Dutch factory ( trading post ) on Hirado, provided the gunpowder and cannons, and when the shogunate forces requested that he send a vessel, he personally accompanied the vessel de Ryp to a position offshore, near Hara Castle.

The ruins of Hara Castle, seen from the sea

However, the rebels at Hara Castle resisted the siege for months and caused the shogunate heavy losses.

Statue of Amakusa Shirō at the site of Hara Castle

Amakusa Shirō's severed head was taken to Nagasaki for public display, and the entire complex at Hara Castle was burned to the ground and buried together with the bodies of all the dead.

An epitaph to Tamiki Hara was originally built by his friends at the site of Hiroshima Castle.

Statue of Amakusa Shirō at Hara Castle

Shiro led the defence of Hara Castle and defeated the strongest of the Shogunate attackers in a series of coordinated defensive surges.

The Shogunal forces performed a final assault, taking Hara Castle in the process.

Karen Joy Fowler's short story " Shimabara " concerns Amakusa Shirō and the siege of Castle Hara.

The Arima clan, who were Kirishitan daimyō, ruled over Shimabara Domain in the late Muromachi period from Hinoe Castle and Hara Castle.

Minami-Arima is the site of Hara Castle.

Within eyeshot of the village is Belclare Castle, a ruined fortress of the O ' Hara family.

He was born into a privileged family in Nagasaki, the second son of Hara Naoie, lord of Nokomi Castle in Hizen province.

* Sterling Quinlan, The Hundred Million Dollar Lunch ( Chicago, J. P. O ' Hara, 1974 ), ISBN 0-87955-310-3.

During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.

Chaplin is also a supporting character in several other films, such as The Cat's Meow ( 2001 ), in which he was played by Eddie Izzard and The Scarlett O ' Hara War ( 1980 ), in which he was played by Clive Revill.

* Alexander O ' Hara, " The Vita Columbani in Merovingian Gaul ," Early Medieval Europe, 17, 2 ( 2009 ), 126 – 153.

* O ' Hara, U. S. Treasury ( 1971 – 72 ), and

Before leaving, Lee learns from his teacher that Han's bodyguard O ' Hara ( Robert Wall ) had been involved in the death of his sister, Su Lin ( Angela Mao ), years ago, when she committed suicide to save herself from dishonour after being cornered by O ' Hara and a collection of Han's thugs.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

The successful 1941 film of the book had a cast including Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O ' Hara, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall ( as Huw ), Donald Crisp, and Barry Fitzgerald.

* Hara ( band ), a Romanian pop-band

* Hara ( Bible ), a Biblical name

* Hara ( company ), a Japanese sake company

* Hara ( film ), a forthcoming Indian 3D computer animated historical drama film

* Hara ( genus ), a fish genus in the order Siluriformes

* Hara ( Hinduism ), a disambiguation page

* Hara ( field ) ( 原 ), a meaning of field in Japanese language

* Hara ( tanden ) ( 腹 ), a Japanese martial art term referring to the stomach

* Hara Station ( disambiguation ), various places

* Hara University ( Pashto: حرا پوهنتون ), a university located in the eastern province of Khost, Afghansitan

* Hara Chandra Ghosh ( 1808 – 1868 ), a leader of the Young Bengal group

* Hara P. Misra ( born 1940 ), an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Sciences and Pathology at Virginia Tech

* Hara Patnaik ( Oriya: ହର ପଟନ ା ୟକ, born 1958 ), a Oriya movie stars in the state of Orissa in India