Kakure Kirishitan
Japanese Christians who went into hiding during the Edo Period (1603–1868) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 start of the Edo period in the early 17th century (lifted in 1873) due to Christianity's repression by the Tokugawa shogunate (April 1638).[1][2][3]