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...

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...

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

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...

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...