Notable samurai, though certainly not all ( e. g. Amakusa Shiro ), have throughout history held such aims or beliefs in disdain, or expressed the awareness that their station — as it involves killing — precludes such reward, especially in Buddhism.

The largest island of the Amakusa group is Shimoshima, which is 26. 5 miles long and 13. 5 miles in extreme width ().

Amakusa produces a little coal and fine kaolin, which was largely used in former times by the potters of Hirado and Satsuma Province.

At present, the islands are organized as Amakusa District, Amakusa City, and Kami-amakusa City, all of which are under the administration of Kumamoto Prefecture.

The inhabitants of the Amakusa Islands, which had been part of the fief of Konishi Yukinaga, suffered the same sort of persecution at the hands the Terasawa family, which, like the Matsukura, had been moved there.

Such portrayal includes Makai Tensho, a story about the fictional battles of Yagyu Jubei, in which Amakusa Shiro rejects the Christian God at the time of his death and becomes a demon, returning to Earth to destroy the Tokugawa shogunate who put him to death with some of Japan's greatest heroes and villains of the age who were also resurrected as demons.

Shiro Amakusa is a recurring character in the Samurai Shodown series of fighting games, featured as both a boss ( in the first Samurai Shodown game, which is loosely based on the Shimabara Rebellion ) and a selectable character, in which he is both a mad and vengeful spirit resurrected as a being of destruction, and a being seeking for redemption ; his evil side is Aku Amakusa.

Many of these women are said to have originated from the Amakusa Islands of Kumamoto Prefecture, which had a large and long-stigmatized Japanese Christian community.

The Flints are field in limited mass-production during the first and second Jupiter Empire Wars, only for the remaining Flints to be defeated by the Jovians ' unmanned Amakusa mobile suits ( which has an AI " clone " system based on the legendary ace pilot Amuro Ray ).

It is bordered by the Ariake inland sea and the Amakusa archipelago to the west, Fukuoka Prefecture and Ōita Prefecture to the north, Miyazaki Prefecture to the east, and Kagoshima Prefecture to the south.

Since the setting of the chapter is the Bakumatsu era, his presence is an anachronism, but considering the additional presence of Ishikawa Goemon, Yodo-Dono, and Shiro Tokisada Amakusa, it is clear that this section of the game was intentionally designed as a mash-up of popular Japanese history.

Amakusa Shiro is often cast as a tragic villain in Japanese popular culture.

In the anime series Rurouni Kenshin, the antagonist Amakusa Shōgo is said to be the " second coming " of Amakusa Shirō.

The manga Amakusa 1637 is a story about a girl from the present world taking the place of Shiro because he was killed.

Nagashima is a small island located just south of Amakusa and connected to mainland Kyūshū via the Kuronoseto bridge.

Nagashima is accessible by car ( via the Kuronoseto bride from Izumi District ) or by Ferry from Amakusa or Kumamoto.

The main island comprising Oyano is still called Oyano Island, and is connected to mainland Kyushu by the first of the " Amakusa Five Bridges ", Tenmonbashi.

Oyano Island is home to the Amakusa Shiro Memorial Hall, a museum that documents the history of the Amakusa-Shimabara Rebellion of 1637.

Ferry from Itsuwa Oniike on the north of the Amakusa Peninsular to Kuchinotsu at the southern tip of the Minamishimbara Peninsula is run by the Shimbara Railway Co. Services operate frequently daily.

Amakusa islands at Yatsushiro Sea, in Japan.

View of Amakusa islands ( with Yushima, Kami-Amakusa in foreground ).

The islands are served by Amakusa Airfield, located on the north end of Shimoshima.

The islands are connected to the mainland by the Five Bridges of Amakusa and by ferry from Hondo and Matsushima.

* Gyōnindake ( traveler's mountain ) offers a spectacular view of Amakusa and some of the smaller islands around Nagashima.

Crypto-Christian crosses and graves, cleverly styled during these two centuries to resemble Buddhist imagery, can still be seen in the Shimabara Peninsula, Amakusa islands and far south in Kagoshima.

* Amakusa, Japan

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

is a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

Kawaura ( 河浦町 ;-machi ) was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan.

In the late 18th to early 19th century, the raw material of porcelain was discovered in other areas of Japan ( e. g., Amakusa ) and was traded domestically, and potters moved more freely.

On August 9, 1945, at Onagawa Bay, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Lieutenant Gray led an attack on a group of Japanese naval vessels, sinking the Etorofu class, escort ship Amakusa before his plane crashed into the bay.

is an airline based in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.