The Japanese term Kirishitan (吉利支丹, 切支丹, キリシタン, きりしたん), from Portuguese cristão (cf. Kristang), meaning "Christian", referred to Catholic Christians in...
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Kakure Kirishitan (Japanese: 隠れキリシタン, lit. 'hidden Christians') is a modern term for a member of the Catholic Church in Japan who went underground at the...
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Catholics went underground, becoming hidden Christians (隠れキリシタン, kakure kirishitan), while others died. Only after the Meiji Restoration was Christianity...
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the oral history of the local Christian (Kirishitan) communities, both Kakure Kirishitan and Hanare Kirishitan. As of 2002, there are 68,617 Catholics...
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Catholics went underground, becoming hidden Christians (隠れキリシタン, kakure kirishitan), while others died. Only after the Meiji Restoration was Christianity...
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Shimofuji Kirishitan cemetery (下藤キリシタン墓地, Shimofuji kirishitan bochi) is a cemetery located in the Nozu neighborhood of the city of Usuki, Ōita, on the...
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include Indians and Arabs. Japanese Filipinos include escaped Christians (Kirishitan) who fled persecutions by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ethnologue lists 186...
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lantern at a local Shinto shrine in Kanagawa Prefecture A kirishitan-dōrō Ikekomi-dōrō of the Kirishitan-dōrō type An oki-dōrō A nozura-dōrō Pagoda-shaped lantern...
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A depiction of Madonna and Child in a 19th-century Kakure Kirishitan Japanese woodcut...
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authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians (Kirishitan) to step, in order to demonstrate that they were not members of the outlawed...
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exhibits relating to the Shimabara Rebellion and Kakure kirishitan ('hidden Christians'). Kirishitan Christianity in Japan 市政だより天草 No.194 [Amakusa City News...
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Justo Takayama (c. 1552/1553 - 5 February 1615) was a Japanese Catholic Kirishitan daimyō and samurai who lived during the Sengoku period that witnessed...
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but was arrested in June 1643 and then incarcerated at a prison named Kirishitan Yashiki (Japanese: 吉利支丹屋敷, Christian Residence) in Edo. He also was tortured...
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was a Japanese daimyō who served under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Known as a Kirishitan daimyo, he is notable for his role as the vanguard of the Japanese invasion...
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Catholics went underground, becoming hidden Christians (隠れキリシタン, kakure kirishitan), while others lost their lives. After Japan was opened to foreign powers...
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Some Christians survived by going underground, the so-called Kakure Kirishitan. Soon thereafter, the Portuguese were permanently expelled. Members of...
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served Matsunaga Hisahide. He was the father of Takayama Ukon, and was a Kirishitan. Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co...
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Shunkō-in (section Kirishitan lantern)
Shunkō-in (春光院, Temple of the Ray of Spring Light) is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and belongs to the Myōshin-ji (Temple of Excellent Mind) school...
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Japanese torture technique used in the 17th century to coerce Christians ("Kirishitan") to recant their faith. The victim was hung head-down by the feet. Both...
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proclaimed a city on April 1, 1889. With Christianity legalized and the Kakure Kirishitan coming out of hiding, Nagasaki regained its earlier role as a center for...
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to 17th-century Japan, who endures persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion...
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modern times becoming known as the "hidden Christians" (隠れキリシタン, kakure kirishitan). These secret believers would often conceal Christian iconography in...
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Davao Del Norte Ignacia del Espiritu Santo Jerónima de la Asunción Kakure Kirishitan Martha de San Bernardo, the first Filipino nun Martyrs of Japan Pedro...
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modern French Revolution Revolt in the Vendée Martyrs of Japan Kakure Kirishitan Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam Modern Constantinople...
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with Numata Jakō, and he was the husband of a famous Christian convert (Kirishitan), Hosokawa Gracia. For most of his life, he went under the name of Nagaoka...
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It seems to have been a combination of traders, Christian converts (Kirishitan) who had fled their home country to various Southeast Asian countries...
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GGKEY:BPN6N93KBJ7. Turnbull, Stephen (2013) [First published 1998]. The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present...
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Kirishitans) who were present in the area since the 16th century, centered in the village of Imamura. They were one of the very few Kakure Kirishitan...
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from the Shimazu clan. In 1587, Hideyoshi increased control over the Kirishitan daimyos by banishing Christian missionaries from Kyūshū. In January 1597...
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follows: On the 23rd of the Second Month, a blackamoor came from the Kirishitan Country. He appeared to be twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. Black...
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