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  2. Sakoku Edict of 1635 - Wikipedia

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    It was the third of a series issued by Tokugawa Iemitsu, [citation needed] shōgun of Japan from 1623 to 1651. The Edict of 1635 is considered a prime example of the Japanese desire for seclusion. The Edict of 1635 was written to the two commissioners of Nagasaki, a port city located in southwestern Japan.

  3. History of the Catholic Church in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Emperor Ōgimachi issued edicts to ban Catholicism in 1565 and 1568, but to little effect. [4] Beginning in 1587, with imperial regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Jesuit missionaries, Christianity was repressed as a threat to national unity. [5] After the Tokugawa shogunate banned Christianity in 1620

  4. Martyrs of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本の殉教者, Hepburn: Nihon no junkyōsha) were Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed, mostly during the Tokugawa shogunate period in the 17th century. The Japanese saw the rituals of the Christians causing people to pray, close their eyes with the sign of the cross and lock ...

  5. Consider This Your 'Shōgun' Historical Primer - AOL

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    As audiences will come to see in Shōgun, the attempt to rid Japan of Christianity will continue throughout Tokugawa’s reign. “It was common belief in Japan and Europe that the religion of a ...

  6. Great Genna Martyrdom - Wikipedia

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    17th-century anonymous painting of the Great Genna Martyrdom at the Church of the Gesù, Rome [1]. The Great Genna Martyrdom (元和の大殉教, Genna no daijunkyō), also known as the Great Martyrdom of Nagasaki, was the execution of 55 foreign and domestic Catholics killed together at Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan, on 10 September 1622.

  7. Kakure Kirishitan - Wikipedia

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    The gion-mamori, the crest of the Gion Shrine, which depicts two crossing scrolls and a horn, was adopted by the Kakure Kirishitan as their crest under the Tokugawa shogunate [4] Kakure Kirishitan are the Catholic communities in Japan which hid themselves during the ban and persecution of Christianity by Japan in the 1600s. [3] [5]

  8. Urakami Yoban Kuzure - Wikipedia

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    After the Shogunate issued a ban on the practice of Christianity, the believers became Hidden Christians, secretly defending their faith and passing it on to the next generation. Spread across the country, several Christian communities existed, but after the ban, they disappeared over the years and remained clandestinely only in the vicinity of ...

  9. Christianity in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In the 20th century, two major contributors to Protestant Christian theology emerged in Japan: Kosuke Koyama (小山晃佑, Koyama Kōsuke), who has been described as a leading contributor to global Christianity, and Kazoh Kitamori (北森嘉蔵, Kitamori Kazō), who wrote The Theology of the Pain of God (神の痛みの神学, kami no itami no ...