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The Reformation · c. 1614–1650
The Kirishitan Documents and the Fumi-e Records
The hidden Christians of Japan and their persecutors
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What it is
Edicts of expulsion, apostasy registers, and the fumi-e images that suspects were required to tread on, alongside the prayers hidden communities memorised for seven generations.
Why it lasted
The record of the most thorough suppression of a Christian community in history, and of a faith that survived in secret without clergy until 1865.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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