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Arima Naozumi

Japanese samurai lord

Field	Value
name	Arima Naozumi
native_name	有馬直純
nationality	Japanese
order	Head of Hizen-Arima clan
term_start	1612
term_end	1641
predecessor	Arima Harunobu
successor	Arima Yasuzumi
order2	Daimyo of Shimabara
term_start2	1612
term_end2	1614
predecessor2	Arima Harunobu
successor2	Matsukura Shigemasa
birth_date	1586
birth_place	Shimabara, Japan
death_date	June 3, 1641
death_place	Osaka, Japan
battles	* Sekigahara campaign (1600)

Shimabara Rebellion (1637)

Arima Naozumi was a Japanese samurai lord who was daimyo of Shimabara Domain and head of the Hizen-Arima clan.

Biography

Naozumi was born at Hinoe Castle in Shimabara, in 1586, the first son of daimyo Arima Harunobu, who was a Christian. He was baptized as Miguel (ミゲル). He was sent by his father to work beside Tokugawa Ieyasu at the age of 15.

In 1600, Harunobu participated in Sekigahara campaign by sending Naozumi to aid Katō Kiyomasa attacking.外山幹夫 (Toyama Mikio), {{Citation | year =1997|title =肥前・有馬一族 |trans-title=The Hizen and Arima Clan

He married Konishi Yukinaga's niece Marta (マルタ); however, in order to curry favor with Ieyasu, he divorced his Christian wife and married Ieyasu's adopted daughter Kuni-hime in 1610.

In 1612, he inherited his father's land, which was valued at 40,000 koku, in Shimabara when his father was executed for his role in the Okamoto Daihachi incident. Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered a general persecution of all Christians in Japan, and Naozumi immediately gave up his Christian belief, exiled his former wife, and secretly killed his two half-brothers: the 8-year-old Francisco (フランシスコ) and the 6-year-old Mathias (マティアス).

However, he was dissatisfied with the constant revolts and chaos as a result of the Christian persecution and asked the Shogunate to transfer him to Nobeoka in Hyūga Province. When the Shimabara Rebellion broke out in his old fief in 1637, he answered the call of the shogunate and led a detachment of 4,000 troops to suppress the rebellion.

He died in 1641, during his sankin-kōtai in Osaka.

References

Morton, ''Japan: Its History and Culture'', p. 260.

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