(date of birth unknownHe is said to have been forty-eight years old at the time of his death.—died January 1, 1687, or in the third year of the JōkyōJōkyō is the name of the era during the Edo period. era) was a Japanese farmer who led a failed appeal for lowered taxes in Azumidaira, a part of the Matsumoto Domain under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was caught and executed along with twenty-seven farmers without trial.Shimpu-tōki vol. 28 The rebellion has been called the Jōkyō Uprising, or the Kasuke Uprising.TANAKA Kaoru, Jōkyō Gimin Ikki no Jitsuzō (The Real Image of The Jōkyō Gimin Uprising), Shinmai Shoseki Shuppan Center, 2002, pp.13-16
