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After the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637–1638, the official suppression of Christian practices was combined with a policy of national seclusion that lasted over two centuries. With the advent of Western powers and reopening of Japan in the 1850s and the reforms of the Meiji Restoration , missionary activity was renewed and a number of Hidden ...
This is a list of notable Shinto shrines in Japan. There are tens of thousands of shrines in Japan. Shrines with structures that are National Treasures of Japan are covered by the List of National Treasures of Japan (shrines). For Shinto shrines in other countries, scroll down to the See also section.
The Immaculate Conception Cathedral [1] (無原罪の聖母司教座聖堂) also St. Mary's Cathedral, [2] [3] often known as Urakami Cathedral (Japanese: 浦上天主堂, romanized: Urakami Tenshudō) after its location Urakami, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Motoomachi, Nagasaki, Japan.
Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. “Because of the Goshuin, shrines have become closer to me, but I don’t consider this a religious activity,” Nomura said after ...
In December 1862, two French priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères, Fathers Louis Furet and Bernard Petitjean, were assigned from Yokohama to Nagasaki with the intention of building a church honoring the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (eight European priests, one Mexican priest and seventeen Japanese Christians who were crucified in 1597 by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) who had been ...
Kashiragashima Church is a Catholic church in Shin-Kamigotō, Nagasaki, Japan. The church was first constructed in 1887 as a wooden church but it was renovated and moved to its current location in 1918. It was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2018 along with the western side of Kashigarashima.
Cathedrals of the Anglican Church in Japan: Christ Church Cathedral in Sapporo [2] Christ Church Cathedral, Sendai; St. Matthew's Cathedral, Maebashi; St. Andrew's Cathedral, Tokyo [3] St Andrew's Cathedral in Yokohama [4] St. Matthew's Cathedral in Nagoya [5] Cathedral Church of St. Agnes in Kyoto [6] Kawaguchi Christ Church Cathedral in Osaka [7]
The Suwa Shrine, Meiji period. Suwa Shrine (諏訪神社, suwa jinja) is the major Shinto shrine of Nagasaki, Japan, and one of the major locations of the Nagasaki Kunchi, originally celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month and now celebrated on the fixed dates of October 7 to October 9. [1]