Kakure Kirishitan
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Kakure Kirishitan is a modern term for a member of the Catholic Church in Japan who went underground at the start of the Edo period in the early 17th century due to Christianity's repression by the To
The Bodhisattva Kannon as the Virgin Mary, Tokyo National Museum.
Gotō Islands
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The Gotō Islands are Japanese islands in the Sea of Japan. They are part of Nagasaki Prefecture.
Kakure Kirishitan
…Church, and became known as the Hanare Kirishitan (離れキリシタン, 'separated Christians'). Hanare Kirishitan are now primarily found in Urakami and on the Gotō Islands. In the early 1990s, anthropologist Christal Whelan discovered some Hanare Kirishitan still living on the Gotō Islands where Kakure Kirishitan had once…
Scenery of the Goto Islands
Dōzaki church