17547 (community total) + 16 (my reviews) = 17563
15 Likes
17563 (community total) + 82 (my reviews) = 17645
15 Likes
17645 (community total) + 43 (my reviews) = 17688
15 Likes
17688 + 20 = 17708
15 Likes
17708 + 89 = 17797
15 Likes
17797 (community total) + 164 (my reviews) = 17961
15 Likes
Day 6 !
17961 (community total) + 15 (my reviews) = 17976
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17976 (community total) + 96 (my reviews) = 18072
16 Likes
18072 (community total) + 27 (my reviews) = 18099
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18099 (community total) + 83 (my reviews) = 18182
14 Likes
18182 (community total) + 84 (my reviews) = 18266
15 Likes
18266 (community total) + 19 (my reviews) = 18285
15 Likes
18285 + 6 (lazy today) = 18291!
Whoâs up for some period appropriate drinks at the end?
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18291 (community total) + 20 (my reviews) = 18311
About 50 years in: ~1613
Around this time Tokugawa Ieyasu created the Christian Expulsion edict, banning the practice of Christianity and any material related to it. He had been concerned for many years about its influence in Japan and over other leaders (one southern daimyo had even converted to Christianity!), and the potential invasion by Christian led groups, so this was his method of removing the threat entirely.
In 1614 the first Siege of Osaka started. Toyotomi Hideyori, (Hideyoshiâs son) had come of age and was trying to prove himself to his remaining clan. He had started rebuilding and upgrading Osaka castle, and had met personally with Ieyasu a couple of times, which didnât go too well. Ieyasu simply saw him and his clan as the last obstacle to full stability to his families rule (Ieyasu wasnât even currently Shogun, he had passed this on in 1605 to his son Tokugawa Hidetada). Toyotomi Hideyori, knowing what was coming, had began âsecretlyâ amaasing forces at Osaka castle, most of them Ronin who had lost their roles in Sekigahara. Ieyasu finally couldnât let his forces grow any larger, and sent over 150,000 men to Osaka, attacking its outlining villages along the way. The main siege started with mass cannon fire, but ultimately the huge well-built walls were too strong, even with hundreds of men digging out from under them.
There was a short period of peace talks as Ieyasu tried to negotiate his way out of going through with the siege, and the arrangement lasted maybe a couple of months. Hideyori was already trying to stop the dismantling of the outer defences of Osaka castle (as was agreed in the peace treaty) and started amassing more troops and ronin to the castle. The second campaign started as Ieyasu then sent another 150,000 troops to Osaka, and the Toyotomi forces decided to take the offensive outside of the castle in the surrounding area. After a few smaller battles as the forces drew closer together, the main forces met at the battle of Tennoji. The Tokugawa forces eventually overwhelmed the enemy, who fled back to Osaka Castle, but without a proper defensive position it was also quickly over run and set on fire. Toyotomi Hideyori and his mother (Hideyoshiâs wife) committed seppuku in the burning castle, ending the Toyotomi clan for good. Much of their remaining family would also commit seppuku or be executed soon after. This was the last resistance to the Tokugawa rule, finally uniting the country and ruling unchallenged over the course of the Edo period.
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18311 (community total) + 30 (my reviews) = 18341
14 Likes
18341 (community total) + 30 (my reviews) = 18371
14 Likes
18371 (community total) + 28 (my reviews) = 18399
14 Likes
18399 (community total) + 42 (my reviews) = 18441
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18441 (community total) + 92 (my reviews) = 18533
14 Likes
18533 + 14 = 18547
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