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...

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...

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...

the oral history of the local Christian (Kirishitan) communities, both Kakure Kirishitan and Hanare Kirishitan. As of 2002, there are 68,617 Catholics...

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...

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...

A depiction of Madonna and Child in a 19th-century Kakure Kirishitan Japanese woodcut...

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...

include Indians and Arabs. Japanese Filipinos include escaped Christians (Kirishitan) who fled persecutions by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ethnologue lists 186...

Justo Takayama (c. 1552/1553 - 5 February 1615) was a Japanese Catholic Kirishitan daimyō and samurai who lived during the Sengoku period that witnessed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"follower of Christianity" is a tín đồ Cơ đốc giáo. In Japan, the term kirishitan (written in Edo period documents 吉利支丹, 切支丹, and in modern Japanese histories...

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...

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...

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...

from the Shimazu clan. In 1587, Hideyoshi increased control over the Kirishitan daimyos by banishing Christian missionaries from Kyūshū. In January 1597...

a daimyō with revenues of only 40,000 koku . The Arima clan, who were Kirishitan daimyō, ruled over Shimabara Domain in the late Muromachi period from...

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...

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...

to 17th-century Japan, who endures persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion...

Blessed Virgin Mary, disguised as Kannon, Kakure Kirishitan, 17th century. Salle des Martyrs, Paris Foreign Missions Society....

until the Boshin War. The Tomioka Christian Memorial (富岡吉利支丹供養碑, Tomioka Kirishitan kuyōhi), also known as the Senninzuka (千人塚) in the town of Reihoku, Kumamoto...

modern French Revolution Revolt in the Vendée Martyrs of Japan Kakure Kirishitan Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam Modern Constantinople...

Archived from the original on October 13, 2022. Retrieved June 15, 2021. "Kirishitan | religion". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Archived from...

GGKEY:BPN6N93KBJ7. Turnbull, Stephen (2013) [First published 1998]. The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present...

three lay catechists. The 30 or 31 people executed by beheading were lay Kirishitans, numbering 27 Japanese and four Koreans. Five of those killed were children...

1593. He accompanied the forces commanded by Konishi Yukinaga, himself a Kirishitan daimyō, and proselytized among the Japanese soldiers during the first...