Remember when I said a bored daimyo leads to a cruel daimyo? Well, hearken to my tale...

After having built up immense armies, covered the map (save one province), and build extensive Buddhist temples in many of the provinces, I decided I would convert to Christianity (at around 1555) just as a way of pooping on my constituent's faces and creating rebellions just to give my armies something to do.

I've done this before, but this time I decided that after converting to Christianity, I would re-convert to Buddhism, then back to Chrisitianity, and so forth endlessly to see how long it took for rebellions to cover the entire map!

Some observations:

1. Don't try this unless you have a near-complete port-system.

2. From 1555-1545 the Portuguese do not visit the Hojo, regardless of whether or not they control the entire map! I don't understand this. Apparently the visits are random... Or was this because I had already accepted the Dutch offer? That hasn't seemed to stop late-century Porgtuguese visits before.

3. If your lands have known peace for long periods, it doesn't matter what religion you convert to, you won't be able to produce any rebellions unless you raise taxes to punitive simultaneously.

4. You can start, build, and finish churches and Buddhist temples simultaneously.

5. Upgrades to temples do not count as converting back to Buddhism.

6. Ordinarily you can only have one cathedral in all Japan, unless you time it so that you can build them all simultaneously. In this way they ALL receive the tithes. But once one is finished, you evidently can't order construction of another.

7. Once you convert reglions back and forth about 4-5 times, your people no longer bother themselves with revolts, regardless of how high the taxes are. About the sixth time I converted back to Buddhism, the "lowest loyalty province" would dip only from 138% to 128%, then bounce right back up again (and even here it wasn't clear that it was not related to the harvest). Evidently after a certain number of conversions your people conclude you're an idiot.