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Contents. Christianity in Japan. Christianity in Japan is among the nation's minority religions in terms of individuals who state an explicit affiliation or faith. In 2022, there were 1.26 million Christians [ 1 ] in Japan, down from 1.9 million [ 2 ] Christians in Japan in 2019. [ 3 ] In the early years of the 21st century, between less than 1 ...
End of the 16th century. Guimet Museum. Celebrating a Christian Mass in Japan Saint Mary of the Snows (Nanban art) c1600. Alessandro Valignano, who supervised the Jesuit missions to the Far East from 1574 to 1606, promoted a deep accommodation (Accomodatio) of Japanese culture. This basic strategy for Catholic proselytism, also called ...
Scandinavia. All of Scandinavia ultimately adopted Lutheranism over the course of the 16th century, as the monarchs of Denmark (who also ruled Norway and Iceland) and Sweden (who also ruled Finland) converted to that faith. In Sweden the Reformation was spearheaded by Gustav Vasa, elected king in 1523.
End of the 16th century. Guimet Museum. By the end of the 16th century, the Japanese mission had become the largest overseas Christian community that was not under the rule of a European power. Its uniqueness was emphasized by Alessandro Valignano since 1582, who promoted a deeper accommodation of Japanese culture.
Anjirō (アンジロー) or Yajirō (弥次郎, ヤジロウ), baptized as Paulo de Santa Fé, was the first recorded Japanese Christian, who lived in the 16th century.After committing a murder in his home domain of Satsuma in southern Kyushu, he fled to Portuguese Malacca and he sought out Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552) and returned to Japan with him as an interpreter. [1]
A promising beginning to Catholic missions in Japan – with perhaps as many as 300,000 Catholics by the end of the 16th century – met complications from competition between the missionary groups, political difficulty between Portugal and Spain and factions within the government of Japan. Christianity was suppressed and it was during this ...
e. The Azuchi–Momoyama period (安土桃山時代, Azuchi–Momoyama jidai) was the final phase of the Sengoku period (戦国時代, Sengoku jidai) in Japanese history from 1568 to 1600. After the outbreak of the Ōnin War in 1467, the power of the Ashikaga Shogunate effectively collapsed, marking the start of the chaotic Sengoku period.
By the end of the 16th century, the number of Christians in Japan – from peasants to entire aristocratic families – reached almost half a million and were primarily concentrated on the island of Kyushu. Further north, Christianity encountered determined and organized resistance from Buddhist monasteries, clergy, and adherents. [3]