Stephen Turnbull's The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day, Japan Library, 1998, is a specialist academic study of the hidden Christian communities who preserved baptism and a liturgical calendar in secret for roughly two hundred fifty years after the Tokugawa suppression, and of their self disclosure to a French priest at Urakami village near Nagasaki on 17 March 1865, the point at which the community became visible again. Not the same author or work as Colin M. Turnbull's The Forest People, a different person already catalogued separately in this atlas.
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Specialist academic monograph on the hidden Christian communities specifically, by a historian with a long publication record on early modern Japan; used for the well documented 17 March 1865 self-disclosure at Urakami and the community's own subsequent, partly divided path between rejoining the Catholic Church and continuing separate hereditary Kakure Kirishitan practice. NotesUsed for the 1865 Urakami self-disclosure and the Kakure Kirishitan community's re-emergence. A different Turnbull (Colin M. Turnbull, The Forest People) already exists in this catalog and is not the same person.
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AuthorStephen Turnbull
PublisherJapan Library
Publication Year1998
Source Typeacademic monograph
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