Collection
Paintings, statues, screens and buildings that carry this history, each with its source and image credits.
Objects, images and buildings
Fumi-e: The Christ UnderfootThe Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's ChurchesMaria Kannon: Mary in the Guise of KannonThe Kobe Nanban Screens by Kanō NaizenŌura Church as First Built (1864‑1865)The Statue of Santa Maria at Ōura (Virgin of the Discovery)The First Urakami Cathedral (1895‑1925)Urakami Cathedral Rebuilt (1959, refaced 1980)The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑1958The Kobe Portrait of Saint Francis Xavier
Object stories
Kirishitan-ban: The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan, 1590 to 1614
The European printing press that the Tenshō embassy brought home in 1590 printed, at Kazusa, Amakusa, Nagasaki and Kyoto, some thirty catechisms, devotional books, dictionaries and grammars for the Japanese Church…
Our Lady of Japan: The Statue at Ōura's Gate (1867)The white statue of the Virgin that stands at the gate of Ōura Church, bought with a gift from hidden Christians and set up on 2 June 1867 to mark the "discovery" of 17 March 1865.