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in 1629. Residents of Nagasaki, whether commoner, Buddhist monk or samurai, were required to tread on the icons which were brought from house to house. Their use was officially abandoned when ports opened to foreigners on 13 April 1856, but some remained in use until Christian teaching was placed
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Attached to this word is an exotic, foreignized sort of interest though it was a native invention of the early Yedo Period and had remained a curious symbol of the anti-Christian policy of the Tokugawa
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participants had instead chosen to be defiant and died, Christianity would not have continued in Japan; he stated "It is only because some made an existential decision to trample on the
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To this I added another petition, that for the sake of my patron the king of Luggnagg, his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed on my countrymen, of
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were usually cast from bronze, but others were made of painted stone and some were woodblock prints. There are relatively few surviving
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The Japanese government used the e-fumi to uncover Christians and sympathizers. Fumi-e contained images of the Virgin Mary and
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Gardiner, Anne Barbeau (Summer 1991). "Swift on the Dutch East India Merchants: The Context of 1672-73 War Literature".
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Eighteenth-century Europe was aware enough of e-fumi for authors of fiction to mention it when alluding to Japan, as in
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Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia, 1400–1900: Rethinking Markets, Workshops and Collections
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Bradley K. Martin (19 December 1980). "Japanese Christian Group Keeps Relics of Old Faith in the Closet".
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in their 2007 exhibition "Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries."
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were required to undergo the e-fumi are thought by modern scholars to be propaganda arising from the
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Christians would sometimes perform the e-fumi yet continue to practice their beliefs secretly (
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In modern Japanese literature, treading on the fumi-e is a pivotal plot element of the novel
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professor Mark Mullins concluded that "In that sense, the fumi-e policies were effective."
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Execution for Christianity was unofficially abandoned by the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1805.
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Pictures of Christian figures to be stepped upon by suspected Christians in Japan
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Picture of Jesus used to reveal practicing Catholics and sympathizers
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Many theologians have tried to contemplate the role of the
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to Japanese Christians, some seeing the treading of the
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as a sign of the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ.
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Fumi-e began first to be used against Christians in
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A government office devised a test called fumi-e...
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