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where Kakure Kirishitans had once fled. There were only two surviving priests on the islands, both of whom were over 90, and they would not talk to each other. The few surviving laity had also reached old age, and some of them no longer had any priests from their lineage and prayed alone. Although
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was built in Nagasaki in 1865. Approximately 30,000 secret Christians, some of whom had adopted these new ways of practicing Christianity, came out of hiding when religious freedom was re-established in 1873 after the
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The Kakure Kirishitan still exist today, forming "what is arguably a separate faith, barely recognizable as the creed imported in the mid-1500s by Catholic missionaries".
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Kakure Kirishitan are the Catholic communities in Japan which hid themselves during the ban and persecution of Christianity by Japan in the 1600s.
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Buddhism secretly practiced on the Japanese island of Kyushu, during a period of religious persecution from 1555 to the Meiji Restoration.
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bringing child" statue, interpreted to be "Maria Kannon" in connection with Christian worship. Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan.
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and other parts of the liturgy were passed down orally, because printed works could be confiscated by authorities.
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these Hanare Kirishitans had a strong tradition of secrecy, they agreed to be filmed for Whelan's documentary
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In the early 1990s, anthropologist Christal Whelan discovered some Hanare Kirishitans still living on the
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Some Kakure Kirishitan did not rejoin the Catholic Church, and became known as the Hanare kirishitan (
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in the early 17th century (lifted in 1873) due to Christianity's repression by the
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Japanese Christians who went into hiding during the Edo Period (1603–1868)
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Includes a descendant of the Kakure Kirishitan reciting the Orasho.
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Kakure kirishitan

Virgin Mary
Kannon
Japan
Paris Foreign Missions Society
Japanese
lit.
Catholic Church
Japan
Edo period
Tokugawa shogunate
Christianity in Japan

Dehua
Guanyin

Gion Shrine
Buddhist
Avalokiteśvara
Latin
Portuguese
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Bible
Bernard Petitjean
Ōura Church
Meiji Restoration
Urakami
Gotō Islands
Gotō Islands

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