Mori Sōiken

{{Short description|One of the leaders of Shimabara Rebellion (died 1638)}}

{{family name hatnote|Mori|lang=Japanese}}

{{nihongo|Mori Sazaemon Sōiken|森 宗意軒||died April 12, 1638}} was one of the leaders of the 1637-1638 Shimabara Rebellion in Japan. By the time of the rebellion he was a ronin, but he had had formerly advised the Christian Daimyo Konishi Yukinaga.{{cite book |last1=Suter |first1=Rebecca |title=Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction |date=2015 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=9780824855000 |page=112}}

Popular culture

In Futaro Yamada's Makai Tenshō Mori survived the Shimabara Rebellion and learned a ninja art to resurrect Amakusa Shirō and Miyamoto Musashi.

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