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I

The Christian Century

1549 to 1614 · Read Chapter I · 638 events

  1. 1285

    Kibe Saburō Narisue holds 17 chō at Kibe-no-ura in the Bungo fief register

    Petro Kasui Kibe1

  2. 1502
  3. 7 Apr 1506
  4. 1510

    Portuguese take Goa

    Goa: the road to Japan2

  5. 1510
  6. c. 1512

    Born (derived from "about 35" in 1547)

    Anjirō (Yajirō), Paul of the Holy Faith1

  7. 1514
  8. c. 1523 to 1526
  9. c. 1525
  10. c. 1526

    Born at Córdoba

    Brother Juan Fernández SJ38

  11. 1526

    Born at Shiraishi, Hirado

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)12

  12. 1526

    Adopted into the main line

    Shimazu Takahisa2

  13. About 1529
  14. 1530

    Ōtomo Sōrin born

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita1

  15. 1530
  16. c. 1532
  17. 1533
  18. 1533
  19. 1534
  20. 1534
  21. 15 Aug 1534
  22. 1535

    Katsuhisa expelled

    Shimazu Takahisa4

  23. 1537 (or 1536)
  24. 1538

    Adoption into the Ōmura house arranged

    Ōmura Sumitada, Dom Bartolomeu (1533 to 1587)1

  25. 1539

    Battle of Shiohara

    Shimazu Takahisa4

  26. Feb 1539
  27. 1541
  28. 1542

    Xavier arrives

    Goa: the road to Japan4

  29. 1542
  30. 1543
  31. 31 Jan 1543
  32. 1546

    First voyage to Malacca; Xavier absent

    Anjirō (Yajirō), Paul of the Holy Faith23

  33. 1546
  34. 3 Mar 1546
  35. 1547

    Enters the Society at Lisbon

    Brother Juan Fernández SJ3

  36. Dec 1547
  37. Pentecost 1548

    Anjirō baptized at Goa as Paulo de Santa Fé

    Chapter I: The Christian Century12 · Francis Xavier: Two Years in Japan12

  38. 1548
  39. 1548
  40. 1548
  41. 20 May 1548

    Anjirō baptised

    Goa: the road to Japan5

  42. 20 May 1548

    Baptised at Goa, Pentecost

    Anjirō (Yajirō), Paul of the Holy Faith16

  43. Winter 1549 to 1550

    Language study; catechism in Latin letters

    Xavier Lands at Kagoshima, 15 August 15491

  44. 1549

    Party leaves for Japan

    Goa: the road to Japan5

  45. 1549
  46. 1549

    Bernardo baptised

    Bernardo of Kagoshima1

  47. Jan 1549

    Spiritual Exercises under Torres

    Anjirō (Yajirō), Paul of the Holy Faith1

  48. Jan 1549
  49. 15 Apr 1549

    Xavier sails from Goa for Japan

    The Gesù, Rome: The Arm of St Francis Xavier5

  50. 24 Jun 1549
  51. Jul 1549

    Storm; captain's daughter drowned

    Xavier Lands at Kagoshima, 15 August 15491

  52. 15 Aug 1549
  53. 29 Sep 1549
  54. 29 Sep 1549

    Audience

    Shimazu Takahisa68

  55. 1550
  56. 1550
  57. 1550
  58. 1550

    Xavier in Hirado; about 100 baptised

    St Francis Xavier Memorial Church, Hirado12

  59. 1550

    Xavier in Hirado; Kotedas convert

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado1

  60. About 1550 to 1551

    First foundation stone, Ignatius present

    The Gesù, Rome: The Arm of St Francis Xavier2

  61. 1550

    Church calendar for Kagoshima believers

    Francis Xavier: Two Years in Japan4

  62. Late 1550

    First visit to Yamaguchi

    Francis Xavier: Two Years in Japan1

  63. 1550

    Xavier leaves; Paul stays as leader

    Anjirō (Yajirō), Paul of the Holy Faith12

  64. 1550s
  65. 1550

    Hirado; Yamaguchi; Kyoto journey

    Brother Juan Fernández SJ6

  66. 1550
  67. 1550

    Succeeds after the Nikai-kuzure

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)1

  68. Autumn 1550

    Grandfather hosts Xavier at Hirado and is baptized

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura18

  69. End Sep 1550
  70. Sep 1550

    Xavier leaves Kagoshima

    Xavier in Kagoshima2 · Bernardo of Kagoshima4

  71. Nov 1550
  72. Dec 1550 to early 1551

    Journey to Kyoto; eleven days there

    Francis Xavier: Two Years in Japan1

  73. Dec 1550 to Jan 1551

    Yamaguchi to Kyoto and back

    Bernardo of Kagoshima4

  74. 1551

    Xavier in Yamaguchi; Dainichi replaced by Deus; leaves Japan in November

    Chapter I: The Christian Century12 · Francis Xavier: Two Years in Japan12

  75. 1551

    Xavier at Funai

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita13

  76. Early 1551

    Xavier in Kyoto, eleven days

    Kyoto (Miyako) and the Church2

  77. 1551

    Takes Xavier's place at Yamaguchi; revolt of Sue Harukata

    Cosme de Torres SJ (1510 to 1570): Second Founder of the Church in Japan13

  78. 1551

    Yamaguchi; revolt

    Brother Juan Fernández SJ6

  79. 1551
  80. Jan 1551
  81. Apr 1551
  82. Jul 1551

    Xavier reports a romanised life of Christ

    Kirishitan-ban: The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan, 1590 to 16145

  83. Sep 1551

    Bungo; meets Ōtomo Yoshishige

    Francis Xavier: Two Years in Japan1

  84. Sept 1551
  85. 15-23 Sep 1551

    Torres's disputations at Yamaguchi

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō1613

  86. 29 Sep 1551

    Torres letter on the disputations

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō13

  87. 20 Oct 1551

    Fernández letter on the disputations

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō1312

  88. Nov 1551
  89. Nov 1551
  90. 15 Nov 1551

    Sails from Bungo

    Bernardo of Kagoshima6

  91. 1552

    Portuguese missionaries begin to come to Funai

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita1

  92. 1552

    Ukon born, probably at Takayama, Settsu

    Takatsuki: Justo Takayama Ukon's Christian Castle Town36

  93. 1552

    Xavier leaves Goa for China; dies

    Goa: the road to Japan3

  94. 1552 to 1553

    Torres's interpreter and debater at Yamaguchi

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  95. 1552
  96. 1552

    Kyōzen and Senyō baptized as Paulo and Barnabé (date Disputed) Disputed

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō51

  97. Feb 1552
  98. 8 Apr 1552

    Xavier's letter to Simão Rodrigues

    Bernardo of Kagoshima6

  99. Aug 1552
  100. 16 Sep 1552
  101. Dec 1552

    Xavier dies on Shangchuan island

    The Kobe Portrait of Saint Francis Xavier2

  102. 3 Dec 1552
  103. 25 Dec 1552
  104. 1553

    *O gloriosa Domina* (Spanish setting) printed at Granada

    Orasho: The Prayers that Were Never Written Down2

  105. 1553

    Funai church (Deus-dō) built

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita1

  106. Spring 1553

    Sets out to convert his parents; kept at Funai by Gago

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  107. Sept 1553
  108. 1554
  109. Winter 1554/55

    Miyano village conversions

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  110. c. Feb 1554

    Enters the Society

    Bernardo of Kagoshima1

  111. 17 Jul 1554

    Leaves Coimbra for Rome

    Bernardo of Kagoshima1

  112. 6 Oct 1554
  113. 1555

    Almeida's home for children

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita1

  114. c. 1555 or 1558
  115. 1555 or 1556
  116. 1555

    Almeida enters the Society (1555 or spring 1556; Disputed) Disputed

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)613

  117. 1555

    Paulo to Hirado with Gago and Fernández

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō52

  118. Jan 1555
  119. 28 Jun 1555

    Preaches at first Mass in new Yamaguchi church

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  120. 16 Sep 1555

    Letter from Hirado; stays a year with Gago

    Luís de Almeida: merchant, surgeon, Jesuit1

  121. 20 Sep 1555

    Gago reports his 1,000 ducats against infanticide

    Luís de Almeida: merchant, surgeon, Jesuit1

  122. 1556

    Gaspar Nishi born on Ikitsuki

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado5

  123. 1556 or 1557

    First Japanese church choir

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita145

  124. 1556
  125. 1556

    Enters the Society of Jesus

    Gaspar Coelho, First Vice-Provincial of Japan23

  126. 1556

    Arrives in Bungo

    Gaspar Vilela SJ24

  127. Spring 1556

    Received into the Society at Funai (1555 or spring 1556; Disputed) Disputed

    Luís de Almeida: merchant, surgeon, Jesuit1

  128. c. 1556

    Paulo dies; Uchida Tomé takes his place at the hospital (Disputed) Disputed

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō3

  129. Jan 1556 (Takada)

    Journey to Hiei with Barnabé

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  130. Jan 1556 (Takada)

    Barnabé and Lourenço go to Tōnomine and Hiei with Paulo's letters

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō18

  131. Apr to May 1556

    Mission moves from Yamaguchi to Funai

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō810

  132. Jul 1556

    Nunes Barreto confirms admissions at Funai (per Takada)

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō7

  133. 1 Nov 1556
  134. c. 1557
  135. 1557
  136. 1557

    Town and Daidōji burned

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church1

  137. 1557
  138. Early 1557

    Dies at Coimbra

    Bernardo of Kagoshima1

  139. 1557
  140. 1557

    Hirado with Vilela; parents baptized; debate with Jōdo monk

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  141. 1557

    Chronology: Paulo dies at Hirado (Disputed) Disputed

    The Tōnomine Monks: Paulo Kyōzen and Barnabé Senyō5

  142. 1 Nov 1557
  143. 1558 and 1565

    Mass conversions on Ikitsuki under Koteda and Ichibu lords

    Hidden Christians and Kakure Kirishitan: Keeping the Faith Without Priests4

  144. 1558
  145. 1558

    Fr Gaspar Vilela's mission; Gaspar baptised

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New24

  146. 1558

    Ikitsuki, Takushima; expelled

    Gaspar Vilela SJ4

  147. 1559
  148. 1559 to 1560
  149. 1559
  150. 1559

    To Kyoto

    Gaspar Vilela SJ16

  151. 1559

    Governor of six provinces; Kyushu tandai

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)1

  152. Sep 1559

    Leaves Funai for Kyoto with Vilela

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  153. Christmas 1560

    Christmas plays at the Funai church

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita4

  154. 1560

    Death of "Ikehata Yajirō Shigenao" (local document)

    Anjirō (Yajirō), Paul of the Holy Faith10

  155. 1560

    Shogun's licence; Ubayanagi-chō

    Gaspar Vilela SJ110

  156. 1560

    Leaves direction of the hospital

    Luís de Almeida: merchant, surgeon, Jesuit3

  157. 1560
  158. 1560
  159. Dec 1560
  160. 1561

    Chapel in Kyoto (rebuilt 1576)

    Chapter I: The Christian Century7

  161. 1561
  162. 1561

    Almeida describes the road to the cross at Kasuga

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado2

  163. 1561

    Japanese boys play the viol

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita1

  164. 1561

    Fróis ordained

    Goa: the road to Japan6

  165. 1561/62
  166. 1561
  167. 1561
  168. 1561

    Letters to India; Almeida sent

    Shimazu Takahisa1213

  169. Jul 1561

    Cardinal Farnese promises to pay

    The Gesù, Rome: The Arm of St Francis Xavier2

  170. 17 Aug 1561

    Sakai letter

    Gaspar Vilela SJ15

  171. 1562
  172. 1562

    Misericórdia group at Kasuga

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado2

  173. 1562

    Hospital passes a hundred patients

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita5

  174. 1562

    Physician Diego sent to Sumisada

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  175. 1562 to 1563
  176. 1562

    Takes the name Sōrin; Usuki castle built

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)17

  177. 17 Jul 1562
  178. 1563
  179. 1563
  180. 1563

    Torres raises a cross at Kurose-no-tsuji

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado5

  181. 1563

    Jesuit letter records a kumi at Kasuga

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado1

  182. 1563

    Cross at Kurose no Tsuji (Tradition) Tradition

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New4

  183. 1563
  184. From 1563
  185. 1563 to 1564

    Nara converts; Takayama

    Gaspar Vilela SJ6

  186. 1563
  187. 1563

    Takushima with Fróis

    Brother Juan Fernández SJ7

  188. 1563

    Nara preaching; Yūki, Kiyohara, Takayama Tomoteru baptized; admitted to Society (catalogue)

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)12

  189. 1563/64

    Iimori: 73 Miyoshi samurai baptized

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)7 · Saint Paul Miki38

  190. 1563

    Preaches to Ōmura Sumitada

    Luís de Almeida: merchant, surgeon, Jesuit3

  191. 1563
  192. 6 Jul 1563
  193. 1564
  194. 1564
  195. 1564

    Born at Genoa

    Blessed Carlo Spinola SJ12

  196. 1564

    Takushima; grammar and dictionaries

    Luís Fróis SJ: The Man Who Wrote Japan for Europe1

  197. 1564

    Father baptized

    Saint Paul Miki1

  198. 1564 or 1569
  199. 1565 to 1568
  200. 1565
  201. 1565

    Conversion of the Ichibu lands (Nakazono)

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New3

  202. 1565

    Missionaries expelled after Yoshiteru's murder

    Kyoto (Miyako) and the Church4

  203. 1565
  204. 1565

    Shogun Yoshiteru murdered; missionaries expelled from Kyoto

    Oda Nobunaga and the Church: The Warlord Who Opened the Capital1

  205. 1565 to 1566
  206. 1565
  207. c. 1565/66 (or 1563)
  208. 1 Feb 1565
  209. 1566

    First Christmas Mass, Okuura

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  210. 1566

    Gotō Islands with Almeida

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  211. 1566
  212. 21 Jan 1566

    Almeida and Lourenço reach Egawa

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  213. May 1566
  214. 1567
  215. late 1567

    Almeida baptises about 200 leading people of Nagasaki-mura

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)6

  216. c.1567

    Christianity reaches Nagasaki and Urakami

    Urakami: The Village That Kept the Faith1

  217. 1567

    Organtino at St Paul's

    Goa: the road to Japan8

  218. 1567

    Sumitaka baptised Dom Luís

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  219. 1567
  220. c.1567
  221. 1567
  222. 1567
  223. 26 Jun 1567
  224. 1568
  225. 1568

    De Angelis born, Enna, Sicily

    The Great Martyrdom of Edo, 4 December 162313

  226. 1568
  227. 26 Jun 1568
  228. Oct 1568
  229. 1569

    Vilela rebuilds a temple as Todos os Santos

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)6

  230. 1569

    Almeida begins the Amakusa mission

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa1

  231. 1569

    Wada Koremasa makes Takatsuki a castle

    Takatsuki: Justo Takayama Ukon's Christian Castle Town2

  232. 1569

    Todos os Santos, Nagasaki

    Gaspar Vilela SJ17

  233. 1569

    Father killed at the Kutsu pass (Takada)

    Blessed Julian Nakaura, the Envoy Who Came Home5

  234. 1569
  235. Mar 1569
  236. 20 Apr 1569
  237. 20 Apr 1569

    Debate before Nobunaga

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)21

  238. 1 Nov 1569

    Todos os Santos completed

    The Founding of Nagasaki, 15711

  239. 1570

    Crown bans Japanese slave trade

    The great ship: the Macao trade and the mission12

  240. 1570
  241. 1570

    Shiki meeting; Figueiredo and Travassos choose the port (Hesselink's timeline: first Portuguese ship in the bay)

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)23

  242. 1570
  243. 1570
  244. 1570
  245. 1570

    Abdicates

    Shimazu Takahisa2

  246. 18 Jun 1570
  247. Jul 1570
  248. 20 Sep 1570

    Portuguese royal prohibition of trade in Japanese slaves (per Hesselink)

    Hideyoshi's Expulsion Edict, 15874

  249. Oct 1570

    Site chosen; Torres dies

    The Founding of Nagasaki, 15711

  250. 2 Oct 1570
  251. 1571
  252. Spring 1571

    Six streets; church of Our Lady

    The Founding of Nagasaki, 157118

  253. 1571

    First Great Ship, Tristão Vaz da Veiga (city; Curvelo)

    The Founding of Nagasaki, 1571710

  254. spring 1571

    First six streets and the small church at the tip of the cape; later in 1571, first Great Ship, Tristão Vaz da Veiga

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)239

  255. 1571

    Manila founded as Spanish base

    Manila and Japan2

  256. 1571 to 1577
  257. 1571

    Wada Koremasa killed; Nobunaga renews protection; Enryakuji burned

    Oda Nobunaga and the Church: The Warlord Who Opened the Capital25

  258. 1571 or 1572

    Cabral received by Nobunaga (see Disputed 8) Disputed

    Oda Nobunaga and the Church: The Warlord Who Opened the Capital126

  259. 1571
  260. 4 Feb 1571

    Letter from Goa

    Gaspar Vilela SJ17

  261. 23 Jun 1571
  262. 1572

    Reaches Japan; sent to Gotō

    Gaspar Coelho, First Vice-Provincial of Japan23

  263. 1572
  264. Christmas 1572
  265. 1572
  266. 1573

    Attack on Nagasaki

    The Founding of Nagasaki, 15712

  267. 1573 to 1574

    Attacks from Fukabori and Isahaya

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)3

  268. 1573

    Ukon and his father take Takatsuki castle

    Takatsuki: Justo Takayama Ukon's Christian Castle Town12

  269. 1573

    Fighting in Kyoto; church spared; Yoshiaki driven out

    Oda Nobunaga and the Church: The Warlord Who Opened the Capital2

  270. 1573 to 1574

    Studies the Lotus Sutra with Fróis

    Organtino Gnecchi-Soldo: "Urugan Bateren" of Kyoto1

  271. 1573
  272. Aug 1573
  273. 1574

    Church at Takatsuki Castle

    Chapter I: The Christian Century6

  274. 1574
  275. 1574

    Church built in the castle grounds

    Takatsuki: Justo Takayama Ukon's Christian Castle Town14

  276. c. 1574
  277. 1574
  278. Mar 1574
  279. 1575 to 1577
  280. 1575 to 1577

    Nanbanji built and dedicated (see Disputed 1) Disputed

    Oda Nobunaga and the Church: The Warlord Who Opened the Capital12

  281. 1576
  282. 1576
  283. 1576

    Superior in Kyoto after Fróis leaves

    Organtino Gnecchi-Soldo: "Urugan Bateren" of Kyoto13

  284. 1576

    Fróis comes to Usuki

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)2

  285. 15 Apr 1576
  286. 15 Aug 1576 or 1577

    Church of the Assumption dedicated

    Organtino Gnecchi-Soldo: "Urugan Bateren" of Kyoto123

  287. 1577
  288. 4 Jul 1577
  289. 1578

    Sōrin baptised Francisco; defeat at Mimikawa

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita14 · Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)14

  290. 1578
  291. 1578 (or 1579)
  292. 1578
  293. 1578
  294. 28 Aug 1578

    Baptized as Francisco

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)41

  295. Dec 1578
  296. 1579

    Valignano arrives; about 130,000 Christians

    Chapter I: The Christian Century2

  297. 1579
  298. autumn 1579

    Sumitada offers Nagasaki and Mogi

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)13

  299. 1579

    Valignano in Japan

    The Arima seminary1

  300. 1579

    Sumitaka dies; persecution

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  301. 1579
  302. 1579

    Archdiocese

    Manila and Japan1

  303. 1579 or Mar 1580
  304. 1579

    Azuchi religious debate (Jōdo vs Nichiren)

    Oda Nobunaga and the Church: The Warlord Who Opened the Capital5

  305. 1579
  306. 25 Jul 1579
  307. 25 Jul 1579

    Brito's ship reaches Kuchinotsu with Valignano

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)13

  308. 1580
  309. 1580

    400 houses; gift to the Jesuits

    The Founding of Nagasaki, 157118

  310. 1580

    Simon Empo born, Nozu, Higo

    The Great Martyrdom of Edo, 4 December 16231

  311. 1580
  312. 1580
  313. 1580
  314. 1580

    Arima seminary opened; Nagasaki and Mogi accepted

    Alessandro Valignano SJ: The Visitor Who Learned to See Japan14

  315. c. 1580
  316. 1580
  317. Pentecost 1580

    Ground for Azuchi seminary given to Organtino

    Oda Nobunaga and the Church: The Warlord Who Opened the Capital3

  318. 1580 to 1582

    Nagasaki grant discussed; approved by the General and Gregory XIII

    Pope Gregory XIII and Japan7

  319. 1580
  320. Mar 1580

    Arima Shigezumi (Harunobu) baptised

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)1

  321. Apr 1580

    First class of the Arima seminary

    Blessed Julian Nakaura, the Envoy Who Came Home5

  322. 21 May 1580
  323. 9 Jun 1580

    Deed of gift signed (Tenshō 8.4.27)

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)13

  324. 9 Jun 1580
  325. 24 Jun 1580

    Valignano's instructions on defending Nagasaki and Mogi

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)3

  326. 15 Aug 1580

    Valignano reports Sumitada's reasons to Rome

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)1

  327. Sep 1580

    Valignano's meeting at Usuki

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)3

  328. Oct 1580

    Consultation at Usuki takes up item 14

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)13

  329. 24 Dec 1580
  330. 1581
  331. 1581
  332. 1581

    Funai college opens

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita1

  333. 1581

    Interpreter for Valignano in Kyoto

    Luís Fróis SJ: The Man Who Wrote Japan for Europe12

  334. 1581

    Azuchi seminary

    Saint Paul Miki1

  335. Easter 1581

    Valignano at Takatsuki; procession of 15,000

    Blessed Justo Takayama Ukon, the Lord Who Gave Up His Castle15

  336. Mar 1581

    Valignano received in Kyoto and at Azuchi; screen given

    Oda Nobunaga and the Church: The Warlord Who Opened the Capital13

  337. 28 Mar 1581

    Reaches Sakai; Easter at Takatsuki; received by Nobunaga

    Alessandro Valignano SJ: The Visitor Who Learned to See Japan1

  338. Jun to Jul 1581
  339. Sep 1581
  340. Oct 1581

    Valignano blesses Usuki church

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)3

  341. 1582 to 1590

    Four young Japanese envoys travel to Europe and back

    Chapter I: The Christian Century2

  342. 1582

    Valignano's ruling: accept, with freedom to give up

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)1

  343. 1582
  344. 1582

    Envoys sail

    The Arima seminary10

  345. 1582
  346. 1582 to 1587
  347. 1582

    Honnōji incident; confined at Midono

    Hosokawa Gracia (1563 to 1600): The Lady of Tango13

  348. 1582

    Enters Society; novitiate at Usuki

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura128

  349. 1582

    Death of Nobunaga; Hideyoshi takes power

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537? to 1598)2

  350. Feb 1582
  351. Feb 1582

    Valignano leaves him in charge

    Gaspar Coelho, First Vice-Provincial of Japan3

  352. 20 Feb 1582
  353. 20 Feb 1582
  354. 9 Mar 1582
  355. Jun 1582
  356. 21 Jun 1582
  357. Oct 1582

    Gregorian calendar in force

    Pope Gregory XIII and Japan2

  358. 1583
  359. 1583

    Misericórdia founded by Justino and his wife (surname Casaria per the diocese)

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)210

  360. 1583

    Envoys at Goa

    Goa: the road to Japan210

  361. 1583
  362. 1583

    Commissioned to write the History

    Luís Fróis SJ: The Man Who Wrote Japan for Europe12

  363. 1583
  364. 1583

    Papal gift to the Japan mission

    Pope Gregory XIII and Japan5

  365. 1583
  366. 27 Jan 1583
  367. 15 Jul 1583

    Acquaviva killed in India

    Blessed Carlo Spinola SJ1

  368. Oct 1583
  369. 1584
  370. 1584
  371. 1584
  372. 11 Aug 1584
  373. Nov 1584
  374. 25 Nov 1584
  375. Dec 1584

    Enters the novitiate at Nola

    Blessed Carlo Spinola SJ1

  376. 1585
  377. 1585

    Work begins on a larger cape church

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)2

  378. 1585
  379. 1585

    Envoys in Rome

    The Arima seminary10

  380. By 1585
  381. 1585
  382. 1585

    Commands the fleet in the Kii campaign; Shōdoshima

    Konishi Yukinaga (Dom Agostinho): Admiral, Protector, and the Block at Rokujō2

  383. 1585

    Treatise on European and Japanese customs

    Luís Fróis SJ: The Man Who Wrote Japan for Europe2

  384. 1585

    Theology begins at Funai

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)3

  385. 1585
  386. 1585

    Romano Kibe becomes a Christian; 144 of his family and household are baptized (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe2345

  387. 28 Jan 1585

    *Ex pastorali officio*

    Pope Gregory XIII and Japan9

  388. 1 Mar 1585
  389. 22 Mar 1585
  390. 23 Mar 1585
  391. 10 Apr 1585
  392. 1 May 1585
  393. 3 Jun 1585
  394. 1586

    Shimazu army burns Funai

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita1

  395. 1586

    Daidōji land returned to the priests

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church1

  396. 1586

    With Coelho at Osaka castle

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)2

  397. 1586

    Visits Hideyoshi at Osaka; Usuki burned

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)14

  398. 1586

    *Dum ad uberes fructus* (Sixtus V)

    Pope Gregory XIII and Japan9

  399. 8 Apr 1586
  400. May 1586

    Hideyoshi's written permission to the Jesuits

    Hideyoshi's Expulsion Edict, 15875

  401. 4 May 1586

    Audience with Hideyoshi at Osaka Castle

    Gaspar Coelho, First Vice-Provincial of Japan13

  402. 4 May 1586

    Receives Coelho at Osaka

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537? to 1598)1

  403. Aug 1586

    Enters Society

    Saint Paul Miki16

  404. 30 Dec 1586

    Introduction of the History finished

    Luís Fróis SJ: The Man Who Wrote Japan for Europe1

  405. 1587
  406. 1587
  407. 1587

    Move from Arima

    The Arima seminary8

  408. 1587
  409. 1587

    Envoys return via Goa

    Goa: the road to Japan210

  410. 1587

    Confirmed in Takaku by Hideyoshi; hides missionaries

    Arima Harunobu (Dom João Protásio): The Prince of the Seminaries1

  411. Summer 1587
  412. 1587
  413. 1587 onward

    Works in Hirado, Arima, Mie; teaches Latin at Amakusa

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura18

  414. 1587

    Kyushu campaign; Ōmura submits

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537? to 1598)4

  415. 1587

    Nagasaki bastions demolished

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537? to 1598)1

  416. 1587

    Petro is born at Urabe, Imi-gō, Kunisaki district, Bungo

    Petro Kasui Kibe21

  417. 19 Jan 1587

    Hidenaga reaches Bungo

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)4

  418. 29 Mar 1587

    Easter visit to the Osaka church

    Hosokawa Gracia (1563 to 1600): The Lady of Tango6

  419. 29 March 1587

    Baptized at Nakatsu by Fr. Pedro Gómez (Unverified) Unverified

    Petro Kasui Kibe36

  420. 27 Apr 1587

    Yoshimune baptized as Constantino

    Ōtomo Sōrin (Don Francisco)5

  421. May 1587
  422. 23 Jun 1587 (Tenshō 15.5.18)
  423. 28 Jun 1587
  424. Jul 1587
  425. 15 Jul 1587
  426. 22 Jul 1587
  427. 23 Jul 1587

    Hideyoshi's notice to retainers, addressed to Hakozaki

    Chapter I: The Christian Century10

  428. 23 Jul 1587 (6.18)

    Eleven article memorandum

    Hideyoshi's Expulsion Edict, 15871113

  429. 24 Jul 1587
  430. 2 Oct 1587

    Coelho's letter on the slave trade

    Hideyoshi's Expulsion Edict, 15874

  431. 7 Nov 1587
  432. 1588

    Hideyoshi takes Nagasaki, Mogi and Urakami as his direct domain

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan3

  433. 1588

    Return asked by Yoshiaki and Harunobu; Nagasaki enters Hideyoshi's domain

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)3

  434. 1588
  435. 1588

    Comes to Kanazawa at Toshiie's invitation

    Kanazawa: Justo Takayama Ukon's Twenty-Six Years in Kaga123

  436. 1588

    Welcomed to Kanazawa by Maeda Toshiie

    Takatsuki: Justo Takayama Ukon's Christian Castle Town36

  437. 1588
  438. 1588
  439. Tenshō 16.4.6 (1588)

    Nabeshima Naoshige made deputy for Nagasaki

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537? to 1598)4

  440. Feb 1588

    Nagasaki in Hideyoshi's domain; Nabeshima Naoshige deputy

    Hideyoshi's Expulsion Edict, 158789

  441. Mar 1588

    Jesuit houses in Kyoto, Osaka, Sakai ordered destroyed

    Hideyoshi's Expulsion Edict, 15874

  442. 28 Jul 1588

    Valignano hears of the expulsion

    Macao and the Church in Japan6

  443. About 1589
  444. 1589
  445. 1589

    The lord of Kibe's wife is baptized on her sickbed and dies days later

    Petro Kasui Kibe13

  446. 1590
  447. 1590
  448. 1590
  449. 1590

    Envoys return

    The Arima seminary10

  450. c. 1590
  451. 1590

    Printing press in Japan; calendars in Japanese

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy5

  452. 1590/91

    Interpreter at Valignano's audience with Hideyoshi

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")127

  453. before mid-1590

    Press set up at Macao; two books printed

    Kirishitan-ban: The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan, 1590 to 16142

  454. 1590
  455. 1590

    Comes of age at Jurakudai

    Tokugawa Hidetada1

  456. 1590
  457. 7 May 1590
  458. 21 Jul 1590
  459. 21 Jul 1590

    Returns to Nagasaki as the Viceroy's ambassador

    Alessandro Valignano SJ: The Visitor Who Learned to See Japan1

  460. 21 Jul 1590
  461. 21 Jul 1590
  462. Aug 1590

    Consultation with Valignano

    Lorenzo Ryōsai (Brother Lourenço)7

  463. 1591
  464. 1591
  465. 1591
  466. 3 Mar 1591
  467. 3 Mar 1591
  468. 25 Jul 1591
  469. 1592
  470. 1592
  471. 1592

    Cape church torn down by Hideyoshi's order

    Nagasaki Given to the Jesuits (1580)23

  472. 1592
  473. 1592

    Amakusa: *Doctrina*, *Fides no dōshi*, Heike

    Kirishitan-ban: The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan, 1590 to 16146

  474. 1592
  475. 1592

    Terazawa governor (July); dismantling of São Paulo church begun (1 Sep)

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537? to 1598)1

  476. 3 Feb 1592
  477. Oct 1592

    Only Jesuit with official permission to stay

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")8

  478. 9 Oct 1592
  479. 1593
  480. 1593

    Franciscans to Japan

    Manila and Japan3

  481. 1593
  482. 28 Dec 1593
  483. 1594

    Harumasa lord; mission resumes

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  484. 1594
  485. 1594
  486. 1595
  487. 1595
  488. 1595
  489. 1595/96
  490. Late 1596
  491. 1596
  492. 1596 to 1600

    First voyage: Brazil, Puerto Rico, captured, London

    Blessed Carlo Spinola SJ2

  493. 1596 to 1597

    Ready for martyrdom in the Osaka lists

    Hosokawa Gracia (1563 to 1600): The Lady of Tango8

  494. 1596 to 1597
  495. 1596 to 1597
  496. 12 Jul 1596

    Cargo seized; arrests in Kyoto and Osaka

    The San Felipe Incident, 159636 · Saint Paul Miki17

  497. Oct 1596
  498. 19 Oct 1596
  499. 16 Nov 1596

    With Bishop Martins before Hideyoshi at Fushimi

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")7

  500. 9 Dec 1596

    Arrested in Osaka

    Saint Paul Miki6

  501. 25 Dec 1596

    Enters Society at Coimbra

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)1

  502. 1597

    Twenty-Six Martyrs at Nishizaka

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 2018

  503. 1597
  504. Jan 1597
  505. Early Jan 1597

    Condemned in Kyoto; ear cut; march begins

    Saint Paul Miki67

  506. 3 Jan 1597
  507. 9 Jan 1597
  508. 9 Jan 1597
  509. 4 Feb 1597
  510. 5 Feb 1597
  511. 5 Feb 1597
  512. 5 Feb 1597

    John of Gotō martyred

    The Gotō Islands and the Church15

  513. 15 Mar 1597
  514. 20 Mar 1597

    Exempted from expulsion from Nagasaki

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")7

  515. Apr 1597

    Ship leaves for Manila

    The San Felipe Incident, 15962

  516. 8 Jul 1597
  517. About 1598 to 1615

    Kanō Naizen paints the Kobe Nanban screens (estimate)

    Chapter I: The Christian Century912 · The Kobe Nanban Screens by Kanō Naizen23

  518. 1598

    Cerqueira renews excommunication of slave buyers

    The great ship: the Macao trade and the mission12

  519. 1598 to 1604

    Arima Harunobu builds the castle

    Hara Castle Ruins12

  520. 1598
  521. about 1598
  522. 1598 or 1599
  523. 1598

    Subdeacon, Macao

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura12

  524. 5 Aug 1598
  525. Sep 1598
  526. 18 Sep 1598

    Hideyoshi dies after Rodrigues's last visit

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")17

  527. 18 Sep 1598 (Keichō 3.8.18)

    Dies at Fushimi Castle

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537? to 1598)91114

  528. 1599

    Christian lords leave Ikitsuki; new confraternities formed

    Hidden Christians and Kakure Kirishitan: Keeping the Faith Without Priests4

  529. 1599
  530. 1599
  531. 1599

    Koteda family leaves for Nagasaki with 600 retainers

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New4

  532. 1599
  533. 1599 to 1600
  534. 1599

    Audience of João Rodrigues; 40,000 baptisms by October

    Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Church: Two Years of Hope, Then the Ban1

  535. 1600
  536. c. 1600
  537. 1600
  538. Early 1600s

    Apostates must obtain temple certificates

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System1

  539. 1600s to 1800s

    Hidden Christians worship at Tsuji and Ōno shrines

    Ōno Church and Ōno Village, Sotome16

  540. 1600
  541. 1600

    *Doctrina* (two scripts); *Wakan rōeishū*

    Kirishitan-ban: The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan, 1590 to 161471

  542. 1600, 1608

    Japan opened to other orders

    Pope Gregory XIII and Japan8

  543. 1600

    Late for Sekigahara

    Tokugawa Hidetada1

  544. 1600

    Petro, aged 13, enters the Jesuit seminary at Nagasaki (Unverified) Unverified

    Petro Kasui Kibe2734

  545. 24 Feb 1600

    Valignano reports freedom for Nagasaki Christians

    Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Church: Two Years of Hope, Then the Ban1

  546. 4 Apr 1600
  547. 13 Aug 1600

    Returns to Nagasaki

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura12

  548. 25 Aug 1600 (Keichō 5.7.17)
  549. Oct 1600
  550. 19 October 1600

    Battle of Ishigakibaru; Romano probably fights for Ōtomo Yoshimune

    Petro Kasui Kibe23

  551. 1601

    About 300,000 Christians

    Chapter I: The Christian Century2

  552. 1601
  553. 1601
  554. 1601
  555. 1601

    Return to Arima

    The Arima seminary89

  556. 1601

    First anniversary at the Osaka church

    Hosokawa Gracia (1563 to 1600): The Lady of Tango2

  557. 1601
  558. 10 Jun 1601
  559. 22 Sep 1601
  560. 22 Sep 1601

    Ordained priest

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura12

  561. 29 October 1601

    Fire at the Nagasaki seminary; it moves to Arima

    Petro Kasui Kibe32

  562. 1602
  563. 1602
  564. 1602
  565. 1602

    First Dominican church on Shimokoshiki (JTA; Disputed) Disputed

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki2

  566. 1602
  567. 1602 or 1603
  568. 1603 to 1639
  569. 1603

    Santiago hospital; Annunciation confraternity

    The Confraternities: the Misericórdia and the Kumi2

  570. 1603
  571. 1603
  572. 1603

    Cerqueira's *Konchirisan no ryaku* printed at Nagasaki

    Orasho: The Prayers that Were Never Written Down57

  573. 1603

    Santa Clara church rebuilt

    Urakami: The Village That Kept the Faith2

  574. 1603

    Philosophy at Macao with Martinho Shikimi

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)1

  575. 1603 to 1604
  576. 1603
  577. 15 Jan 1603
  578. 1604
  579. 1604 to 1608

    *Arte da Lingoa de Iapam*

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")17

  580. 1604 to 1608
  581. 1604
  582. 26 Jan 1604
  583. 1605
  584. c. 1605

    300+ baptisms in Kyoto in a year

    The Great Martyrdom of Kyoto, 6 October 16195

  585. 1605
  586. 1605

    Resident priest and brother in Kanazawa

    Kanazawa: Justo Takayama Ukon's Twenty-Six Years in Kaga2

  587. 1605
  588. 1605

    Kikuchi Masashige appointed headman; takes the name Takaya

    The Takaya Headman's Estate: The Fumi-e Ground at Urakami1

  589. 1605
  590. 1605
  591. 1605
  592. 1605
  593. 16 Aug 1605

    Melchior Kumagai executed at Hagi

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church13

  594. 19 Aug 1605

    Damian beheaded in Yamaguchi

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church13

  595. 1606

    Franciscan church and hospital at Wakayama

    Kōsatsu: The Notice Boards and the Price on a Christian1

  596. 1606

    Moved to Sendai in Satsuma (JTA)

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki2

  597. 1606

    First Dominican church in Japan opened at Kyōdomari

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki5

  598. 1606

    Kibe finishes

    The Arima seminary12

  599. 1606

    Naizen's Hōkoku Festival screens dedicated at Toyokuni Shrine

    The Kobe Nanban Screens by Kanō Naizen2

  600. 1606

    Finishes the seminary; private vow to become a Jesuit; becomes a dōjuku

    Petro Kasui Kibe23

  601. c.1606 to 1614

    Dōjuku at the Akizuki residence (moved to Amagi in 1613) under Fr. Gabriel de Matos

    Petro Kasui Kibe23

  602. 20 Jan 1606
  603. 20 Jan 1606
  604. 1607
  605. 1608

    Ferreira ordained

    Macao and the Church in Japan11

  606. 1608
  607. 1608
  608. 1609
  609. 1609
  610. 1609

    Church rebuilt in Nagasaki by Fr Francisco de Morales

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki123

  611. 1609

    Takaoka castle laid out, attributed to Ukon

    Kanazawa: Justo Takayama Ukon's Twenty-Six Years in Kaga3

  612. 22 Apr 1609
  613. 29 Jun 1609
  614. 14 Nov 1609
  615. 1610

    Korean confraternity; Sotelo's in Edo

    The Confraternities: the Misericórdia and the Kumi23

  616. 1610
  617. By 1610 to 1611
  618. Jan 1610
  619. 1611

    Santo Tomás

    Manila and Japan2

  620. 1612

    Hara Mondo banished from Ieyasu's court

    The Great Martyrdom of Edo, 4 December 162312

  621. 1612
  622. 1612 to 1615

    First ban in Kyoto; churches in the Deus streets destroyed

    The Great Martyrdom of Kyoto, 6 October 161925

  623. 1612

    Christians begin to flee to Tōhoku and Ezo

    Sengendake and the Martyrs of Ezo, 16393

  624. 1612

    Fourteen Christians expelled from Sunpu

    Fuda-no-tsuji: The Great Martyrdom of Edo2

  625. 1612

    The Kyoto church still flourishes

    The Great Martyrdom of Kyoto, Shōmen Riverbank1

  626. 1612

    The lord of Kaga presses him to give up his faith; he refuses

    Kanazawa: Justo Takayama Ukon's Twenty-Six Years in Kaga6

  627. 1612

    Closure at Arima; Harunobu dies (5 June)

    The Arima seminary48

  628. 1612
  629. 1612
  630. 1612
  631. 21 Mar 1612 (Keichō 17.3.21)

    Ban proclaimed at Sunpu, Edo, Kyoto

    Tokugawa Hidetada3

  632. 5 Jun 1612
  633. 8 Nov 1612

    Spinola observes the lunar eclipse at Nagasaki

    The Great Genna Martyrdom, Nagasaki, 10 September 16222 · Blessed Carlo Spinola SJ2

  634. 1613
  635. 1613 to 1615
  636. 27 Dec 1613

    Letters of Hasegawa Sahyōe and Gotō Shōzaburō warn of Ieyasu's anger

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 161414

  637. 1614
  638. 1920

    Xavier portrait found at Sendaiji

    Chapter I: The Christian Century1314

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  1. 1614
  2. 1614
  3. 1614

    Churches pulled down

    The Nagasaki magistrate (bugyō)4

  4. 1614
  5. 1614
  6. 1614

    Xavier's forearm separated by Acquaviva

    The Gesù, Rome: The Arm of St Francis Xavier1

  7. 1614 or 1615

    Destroyed under the ban

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki1236

  8. 1614
  9. 1614
  10. 1614
  11. 1614
  12. 1614

    Expulsion of Christians

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  13. 1614

    Churches destroyed

    Nagasaki: the Christian city1

  14. 1614 to 1617

    Hidden in Kyoto region

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)1

  15. 1614

    Stays in Japan after the expulsion; parish priest of Kuchinotsu

    Blessed Julian Nakaura, the Envoy Who Came Home125

  16. 1614
  17. 1614

    Stays in Japan

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura128

  18. 1614
  19. Early 1614

    The shogunate orders the missionaries expelled

    Petro Kasui Kibe3

  20. 27 Jan 1614
  21. 31 Jan 1614 (Keichō 18.12.22, night)
  22. Jan to Feb 1614

    Edict in his name

    Tokugawa Hidetada45

  23. 1 Feb 1614 (Keichō 18.12.23)

    Text presented to Ieyasu

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 1614810

  24. 11 Feb 1614

    Kyoto Jesuits ordered to Nagasaki

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 161414

  25. 20 Feb 1614

    Death of Bishop Cerqueira

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 16141

  26. 21 Feb 1614
  27. Mar 1614

    With Kibe, carries the martyr Matthias Shichirobyōe's body to Nagasaki

    Blessed Julian Nakaura, the Envoy Who Came Home5 · Petro Kasui Kibe2

  28. 11 Mar 1614

    Missionaries and exiles reach Nagasaki

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 16141

  29. Early April 1614

    Kibe carries Shichirōbei's body to the Todos os Santos church, Nagasaki

    Petro Kasui Kibe28

  30. May 1614

    Visits the imprisoned Ogasawara family in Kokura castle

    Blessed Julian Nakaura, the Envoy Who Came Home5

  31. 7 Aug 1614
  32. Apr to Oct 1614

    Processions and penances in Nagasaki

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 16141

  33. 14 to 15 Oct 1614

    Crosses burned; altars stripped

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 16141

  34. 25 Oct 1614

    Order to go to Fukuda

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 16141

  35. Nov 1614
  36. Nov 1614

    Exile of the missionaries

    The Jesuit mission in Japan, 1549 to 164416

  37. Nov 1614
  38. Nov 1614
  39. 4 Nov 1614

    Diogo de Mesquita dies near Nagasaki

    Nationwide Ban and Expulsion, 16141

  40. 7 or 8 Nov 1614
  41. 7 Nov 1614
  42. 7 and 8 November 1614

    The exile ships leave for Manila and Macau (Macau ships from Fukuda, 115 people) (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe3194

  43. 22 November 1614

    Martyrdom of the Korean Christian Miguel at Kuchinotsu; Kibe later testifies to the wheat relic, so he was still in Japan

    Petro Kasui Kibe2

  44. 28 Nov 1614
  45. 28 Nov 1614

    Exiles reach Manila

    Manila and Japan5

  46. 1615

    Hara Mondo rearrested and mutilated

    The Great Martyrdom of Edo, 4 December 16231

  47. 1615

    Mondo captured at Iwatsuki and maimed

    Fuda-no-tsuji: The Great Martyrdom of Edo2

  48. 1615
  49. 1615
  50. 1615
  51. 1615

    Kibe goes on to Macau

    Petro Kasui Kibe27

  52. Feb 1615
  53. 2 Feb 1615

    Dies in Manila (parish date; Profillet 5 Feb)

    Kanazawa: Justo Takayama Ukon's Twenty-Six Years in Kaga26

  54. c. March 1615

    Kibe sails to Manila

    Petro Kasui Kibe210

  55. 2 August 1615

    Diogo Yūki in Manila writes that Japanese students are thinking of going to Rome

    Petro Kasui Kibe2

  56. 25 Oct 1615
  57. 3 Nov 1615
  58. 1616
  59. 1616

    The Shiba gate is built at Fuda-no-tsuji

    Fuda-no-tsuji: The Great Martyrdom of Edo1

  60. 1616
  61. 1616
  62. 1616 to 1617
  63. 1616

    Kibe leaves for Goa

    Macao and the Church in Japan14

  64. 1616
  65. 1616

    Ieyasu dies; two-port order

    Tokugawa Hidetada78

  66. Autumn 1616

    Kibe, Minoes and Konishi leave Macau for Malacca and Goa (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe2783

  67. 1 Jun 1616
  68. 10 June 1616

    Fr. Francisco Pires reports that four senior Japanese preachers have asked to go to India

    Petro Kasui Kibe2

  69. 1617
  70. 1617

    Matsukura Shigemasa to Shimabara

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 16381

  71. 1617
  72. 1617
  73. 1617 to 1618

    Overland by Hormuz and Persia, Baghdad and Damascus (Unverified) Unverified

    Petro Kasui Kibe210

  74. c. May 1617

    Arrives at Goa (Unverified) Unverified

    Petro Kasui Kibe7

  75. 1 Oct 1617
  76. 1618
  77. 1618, 1621
  78. 1618

    Castle abandoned after Matsukura builds a new one

    Hara Castle Ruins1

  79. 1618
  80. 2 April 1618

    "D. Petrus Japonensis" received as a pilgrim at the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe10711

  81. 13/14 Dec 1618
  82. 14 Dec 1618
  83. 1619 / 1622 / 1623

    Great martyrdoms in Kyoto (52), Nagasaki (55), Edo (50)

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan3

  84. 1619

    Todos os Santos stands until 1619 (city); torn down 1620 (JTA)

    The Founding of Nagasaki, 157159

  85. 1619 or 1622

    Informer rewards begin (Nagasaki or Kyoto)

    Kōsatsu: The Notice Boards and the Price on a Christian124

  86. Early 1619

    Arrests under Itakura Katsushige

    The Great Martyrdom of Kyoto, 6 October 161913

  87. 1619

    Hidetada at Fushimi orders the burning

    The Great Martyrdom of Kyoto, 6 October 1619123

  88. 1619
  89. 1619
  90. 1619

    Murayama Tōan executed in Edo

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki3

  91. 1619 / 1622

    Beatified / canonised

    Francis Xavier: Two Years in Japan1

  92. 1619

    Cousin Leonard Kimura burned; Anthony Kimura beheaded

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura7

  93. 10 Jan 1619

    Thirty-six of Daiusu-machi taken to the Ogawa gaol

    The Great Martyrdom of Kyoto, Shōmen Riverbank2

  94. 15 Mar 1619

    Morales arrested in Tokuan's house

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki7

  95. Jul 1619
  96. Apr and Jul 1619
  97. Aug 1619

    Arrested; escapes; gives himself up in his Roman gown

    Thomas Araki, the Priest from Rome Who Fell1

  98. About Sep 1619
  99. 6 Oct 1619
  100. 6 Oct 1619

    Kyoto burning

    Tokugawa Hidetada9

  101. 15 Oct 1619

    Diego Kagayama beheaded at Kokura

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 200814

  102. Nov 1619

    Domingos Jorge burned for hosting Spinola

    The Great Genna Martyrdom, Nagasaki, 10 September 16223

  103. 15 Nov 1619

    Domingos Jorge burned

    Blessed Carlo Spinola SJ1

  104. 1620
  105. 1620

    Carvalho's first Masses; 15 Aug at the gold field

    Sengendake and the Martyrs of Ezo, 163912

  106. 1620
  107. 1620

    Jesuit Provincial sends a man, and Ferreira, to look for him in Hirado

    Thomas Araki, the Priest from Rome Who Fell2

  108. 1620 to 1622

    Hirayama affair

    Tokugawa Hidetada10

  109. 1620
  110. Feb 1620
  111. 9 Feb 1620
  112. May or June 1620

    Arrives in Rome

    Petro Kasui Kibe21012

  113. 5 Aug 1620
  114. 18 October 1620
  115. 19 and 20 October 1620

    Minor orders (porter, lector)

    Petro Kasui Kibe31

  116. November 1620

    Writes his personal statement ("I am now 33")

    Petro Kasui Kibe1132

  117. 1 November 1620

    Subdeacon, sacristy of Santa Maria Maggiore, from Bishop Paul de Curte

    Petro Kasui Kibe31

  118. 8 November 1620

    Deacon, sacristy of St. John Lateran, from Bishop Raffaele Inviziati

    Petro Kasui Kibe31

  119. 15 November 1620 (Sunday)

    Ordained priest at St. John Lateran, aged 33 (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe1371415114

  120. 20 and 21 November 1620

    Enters the novitiate of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale

    Petro Kasui Kibe3284

  121. 1621
  122. 1621

    Angelis's second visit and report

    Sengendake and the Martyrs of Ezo, 163912

  123. About 1621 to 1624
  124. 28 January 1621

    Death of Pope Paul V

    Petro Kasui Kibe31

  125. 29/30 Jun 1621
  126. 13 August 1621

    Death of John Berchmans; a month later, Bellarmine dies at the novitiate

    Petro Kasui Kibe1

  127. 21 Dec 1621
  128. 1622

    Genna martyrs (21 Rosary members)

    The Confraternities: the Misericórdia and the Kumi2

  129. 1622
  130. 1622

    Camillo Costanzo martyred; no more missionaries

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado1

  131. 1622
  132. 1622
  133. 1622

    Defends Macao's walls in negotiations

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")8

  134. Summer 1622

    Carries the order to the lord of Hirado before the Zúñiga and Flores trial

    Thomas Araki, the Priest from Rome Who Fell3

  135. 23 Jan 1622
  136. 12 March 1622

    Canonization of Ignatius and Xavier at St. Peter's; Kibe attends

    Petro Kasui Kibe2103

  137. 27 May 1622

    João Sakamoto Zaemon and Damian Deguchi beheaded on the island

    Nakaenoshima, Hirado68

  138. 6 June 1622

    Leaves Rome for Portugal

    Petro Kasui Kibe1328

  139. 7 September 1622

    Reaches the college at Évora

    Petro Kasui Kibe13

  140. 9 Sep 1622
  141. 9 Sep 1622

    Marched from Suzuta toward Nagasaki

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura98

  142. 10 Sep 1622
  143. 10 Sep 1622
  144. 21 November 1622

    First vows in Lisbon, feast of the Presentation (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe13

  145. Summer 1623
  146. 1623

    Angelis gives himself up with Simon Enpo; burned in Edo

    Sengendake and the Martyrs of Ezo, 1639135

  147. 1623

    De Angelis and Mondo betrayed

    Fuda-no-tsuji: The Great Martyrdom of Edo2

  148. Christmas 1623
  149. c. 1623

    Proposed date of the painting

    The Kobe Portrait of Saint Francis Xavier3

  150. 1623

    Iemitsu shogun; Edo martyrdom 4 Dec

    Tokugawa Hidetada1112

  151. Jan 1623

    First of eight letters asking for the Indies

    Giuseppe Chiara (Okamoto San'emon) and the Rubino Groups1

  152. 1 February 1623

    Letter from Lisbon to Fr. Oliver Pensa

    Petro Kasui Kibe1

  153. 25 March 1623

    Sails from Lisbon with Patriarch Afonso Mendes

    Petro Kasui Kibe3284

  154. 3 April 1623

    Passes Porto Santo; 6 April: the Canaries

    Petro Kasui Kibe3

  155. 25 July 1623

    Rounds the Cape of Good Hope

    Petro Kasui Kibe31

  156. 2 Sep 1623
  157. 22 September 1623

    Reaches Mozambique and winters there

    Petro Kasui Kibe13

  158. Oct to Nov 1623

    Arrests in Edo and Kamakura

    The Great Martyrdom of Edo, 4 December 16231

  159. 4 Dec 1623
  160. 4 Dec 1623
  161. 5 Dec 1623
  162. 24 or 25 Dec 1623

    Second execution near the same place

    The Great Martyrdom of Edo, 4 December 162314

  163. 24 Dec 1623

    Families and helpers executed

    Fuda-no-tsuji: The Great Martyrdom of Edo3

  164. 1624
  165. 1624
  166. 1624

    Break with Manila

    Manila and Japan9 · Tokugawa Hidetada13

  167. 1624

    Stroke; carried in a palanquin

    Blessed Julian Nakaura, the Envoy Who Came Home5

  168. Jan 1624

    Carvalho gives himself up in a mining valley

    Sengendake and the Martyrs of Ezo, 16396

  169. Feb 1624

    Juan leaves Fukuhara for Nanbu rather than renounce

    Fukuhara, Mizusawa: Gotō Juan and the Canal That Bears His Name156

  170. Feb 1624

    Carvalho taken in the mountains above Mizusawa with believers

    Hirose River, Sendai: Father Carvalho and the Martyrs in the Water134

  171. 18 Feb 1624
  172. 22 Feb 1624
  173. 5 Mar 1624

    Deguchi and Sakamoto families martyred

    Nakaenoshima, Hirado67

  174. 27 March 1624

    Leaves Mozambique

    Petro Kasui Kibe3

  175. 28 May 1624

    Kibe at Goa again

    Goa: the road to Japan14 · Petro Kasui Kibe132

  176. 5 Nov 1624

    Martyrs Caio (53) and Diego (40) burned, as recorded in the parish history

    Urakami: The Village That Kept the Faith2

  177. 1625

    Reward for a priest raised to 100 silver

    Kōsatsu: The Notice Boards and the Price on a Christian3

  178. c. April 1625

    Leaves Goa for Manila

    Petro Kasui Kibe2

  179. October or November 1625

    Reaches Macau

    Petro Kasui Kibe2714

  180. 1626
  181. 1626

    Daijō daijin

    Tokugawa Hidetada1

  182. 1627
  183. 1627
  184. 1627

    Shimabara martyrs (Paulo Uchibori and companions)

    Amakusa Shirō (about 1621 to 1638): The Boy under the Eucharistic Banner12

  185. 1627

    Beatified

    Saint Paul Miki1

  186. 1627

    Purple robe affair

    Tokugawa Hidetada2

  187. February 1627

    Leaves Macau; captured by Dutch ships near the Singapore Strait; 14 days ashore (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe210

  188. 21 Feb 1627

    Uchibori's three sons killed at Shimabara

    Unzen Jigoku12

  189. 28 Feb 1627

    Paulo Uchibori and fifteen others die at Unzen

    Unzen Jigoku12

  190. 1 May 1627

    Leaves Malacca

    Petro Kasui Kibe23

  191. 17 May 1627

    Joachim Mine Sukedayū and nine others die at Unzen

    Unzen Jigoku12

  192. End of July 1627

    Reaches Ayutthaya, Siam

    Petro Kasui Kibe23

  193. 14 Sep 1627
  194. 1628
  195. 1628

    Mizuno Morinobu introduces treading in Nagasaki

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot15

  196. 1628
  197. 1628

    Sengendake gold field opened

    Sengendake and the Martyrs of Ezo, 16393

  198. 1628
  199. 1629

    Takenaka Shigeyoshi introduces board fumi-e

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot1

  200. 1629
  201. c. 1629
  202. 12 Jan 1629
  203. 2 July 1629

    Leaves Ayutthaya on the Manila embassy ship

    Petro Kasui Kibe23

  204. c. July or August 1629

    At the Jesuit college in Manila

    Petro Kasui Kibe32

  205. 1630
  206. 1630

    Matsukura Shigemasa dies

    Unzen Jigoku3

  207. 1630

    Kibe leaves for Lubang

    Manila and Japan9

  208. 1630
  209. 2 March 1630

    Leaves Manila for Lubang with Miguel Matsuda

    Petro Kasui Kibe316

  210. 7 May 1630

    Letter from Lubang to Fr. Nuno Mascarenhas

    Petro Kasui Kibe162

  211. c. 20 June 1630

    Sails from Lubang

    Petro Kasui Kibe2

  212. 12 June 1630

    Letter from Lubang to Fr. Juan López

    Petro Kasui Kibe217

  213. c. July 1630

    Wrecked in the Tokara islands; lands at Bōnotsu, Satsuma

    Petro Kasui Kibe231

  214. August 1630

    Miguel Matsuda dies in the hills near Nagasaki

    Petro Kasui Kibe3

  215. 1631

    Religious inspections ordered in Kii

    Kōsatsu: The Notice Boards and the Price on a Christian1

  216. 1631
  217. 1631

    Meets Jeong Duwon, Dengzhou

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")1

  218. 1631

    Decides to go to the Sendai domain (Unverified) Unverified

    Petro Kasui Kibe3

  219. 1632
  220. 1632
  221. End of 1632
  222. 1632
  223. Feb 1632
  224. 14 Mar 1632
  225. Jul 1632

    Couros dies; Ferreira acting superior

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)1

  226. Dec 1632

    Five missionaries tortured here, executed at Nishizaka

    Unzen Jigoku1

  227. 1633

    Ferreira renounces his faith in the pit

    Chapter II: The Hidden Centuries1

  228. 1633
  229. 1633

    First order to the magistrates

    The great ship: the Macao trade and the mission15

  230. 1633

    Two magistrates; orders begin

    The Nagasaki magistrate (bugyō)511

  231. 1633 to 1636
  232. 1633

    Nakaura martyred

    The Arima seminary10

  233. 1633 to 1637

    Ruiz group martyrs

    Manila and Japan1

  234. 1633 to 1636
  235. 1633

    Ferreira apostatizes in the pit at Nagasaki (Unverified) Unverified

    Petro Kasui Kibe31182

  236. 28 Jul 1633

    Michael Yakuya burned and Nicholas Fukunaga put in the pit at Nishizaka; Nicholas died 31 Jul

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 200815

  237. 31 Jul 1633
  238. 1 Aug 1633
  239. 1 Aug 1633
  240. October 1633

    By boat from Ishinomaki to Mizusawa; hides with Miyake Tōemon (Unverified) Unverified

    Petro Kasui Kibe3

  241. 18 to 21 Oct 1633

    Julian Nakaura in the pit at Nishizaka; dies 21 Oct

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 200811

  242. 18 Oct 1633
  243. 18 Oct 1633
  244. 18 Oct 1633
  245. 21 Oct 1633
  246. 21 Oct 1633
  247. 1634

    Year of the church calendar later attributed to Bastian (Tradition) Tradition

    Chapter II: The Hidden Centuries210 · Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan314 · Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy56

  248. 1634
  249. 1634
  250. 1634
  251. 1634

    Oldest surviving shūmon register

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System1

  252. 1634
  253. 1634

    Church calendar later kept in Sotome (Bastian's calendar, Tradition) Tradition

    Shitsu Church and the Sotome villages9

  254. 1634 to 1636
  255. 1635
  256. 1635

    Overseas travel banned; temple-registration inquisitions ordered

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan3

  257. 1635

    Office of Temples and Shrines; nationwide inspections ordered

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System126

  258. 13 Apr 1635
  259. 14 Apr 1635

    Palmeiro dies in Macao

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)17

  260. 1636

    Portuguese confined to Dejima

    The Expulsion of the Portuguese, 16397

  261. 1636

    Ferreira dismissed

    Macao and the Church in Japan11

  262. 1636
  263. 1636

    Reported alive

    Petro Kasui Kibe14

  264. 30 Jan 1636

    Ogasawara Genya, Miya and family martyred in Kumamoto

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 200814

  265. Feb 1636
  266. 31 Jul 1636
  267. 1 to 2 Nov 1636

    Dismissed from Society at Macao

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)1

  268. 1637 to 1638
  269. 1637 to 1638
  270. 1637 to 1638
  271. 1637

    Lorenzo Ruiz executed here

    Twenty-Six Martyrs Monument, Nishizaka2

  272. 23 Jul 1637

    Body of Ignatius placed in Algardi's urn

    The Gesù, Rome: The Arm of St Francis Xavier2

  273. Sep 1637

    Interprets at the hearing of the friars from the Ryukyus

    Thomas Araki, the Priest from Rome Who Fell1

  274. 17 Oct 1637
  275. Dec 1637
  276. 11 Dec 1637 (Kan'ei 14.10.25)

    Hayashi Hyōemon killed at Fukae

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 163814

  277. 17 Dec 1637

    Correa's date for the outbreak

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 16383 · Hara Castle Ruins6

  278. 25 Dec 1637 (11th month 9th)

    News reaches Edo; Itakura sent

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 16381

  279. 27 Dec 1637

    Terazawa force defeated in Amakusa

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 16383

  280. 1638

    Informant rewards made nationwide

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan3

  281. 1638 (Kan'ei 15.9)

    Board: priest 200, brother 100; rewards nationwide

    Kōsatsu: The Notice Boards and the Price on a Christian29

  282. 1638

    Certificates required of all (Tamamuro)

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System1

  283. 1638

    Rising crushed after a four-month siege

    Hara Castle Ruins12

  284. 1638 onward

    Portuguese ships banned; closure of the country

    Hara Castle Ruins1

  285. c. 15 Jan 1638

    Itakura reaches Shimabara

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 163813

  286. 17 Jan 1638 (Kan'ei 14.12.3)
  287. 27 Jan 1638

    Rebels in Hara Castle (Murdoch)

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 16381

  288. 14 Feb 1638

    Itakura killed in second assault

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 16381

  289. 17 Feb 1638

    Letter shot into the besiegers' camp

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 16381

  290. Feb to 12 Mar 1638
  291. 21 Feb to 12 Mar 1638

    Dutch ship De Ryp fires on the castle

    Hara Castle Ruins6

  292. 4 to 5 Apr 1638
  293. 11 to 12 Apr 1638
  294. 12 Apr 1638

    Fall of the castle, Kan'ei 15.2.28 (Pagès gives 15 Apr)

    Hara Castle Ruins689

  295. 13 Apr 1638

    Hosokawa orders the hunt for survivors and men for pulling down the walls

    Hara Castle Ruins8

  296. 20 October 1638

    Shogunate order to all lords to hunt Christians, with rewards

    Petro Kasui Kibe1

  297. 1639
  298. 1639
  299. 1639
  300. 1639 (8th month)

    106 Christians beheaded

    Sengendake and the Martyrs of Ezo, 163912

  301. 1639
  302. 1639

    Trial of Porro, Shikimi and Kibe in Edo

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)7

  303. 1639

    Chiara reaches Macao; Rubino named Visitor

    Giuseppe Chiara (Okamoto San'emon) and the Rubino Groups134

  304. 1639

    Questions Pedro Kasui Kibe; Kibe dies in the pit (about July)

    Inoue Masashige (1585 to 1661): The Inquisitor36

  305. Spring 1639

    Arrest in the Sendai domain (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe114203

  306. Spring 1639

    Walked in chains to Edo; Denmachō prison

    Petro Kasui Kibe32

  307. 17 March 1639

    Chōzaburō's report naming Miyake Tōemon as Kibe's host (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe1923

  308. May 1639

    Porro gives himself up to Ishimoda Daizen

    Petro Kasui Kibe12

  309. May or June 1639

    Four hearings before the senior officials; Ferreira present

    Petro Kasui Kibe13

  310. June 1639

    Questioned before Tokugawa Iemitsu at Sakai Tadakatsu's residence

    Petro Kasui Kibe31

  311. Jul 1639
  312. June to July 1639

    Ten days of argument by Inoue Masashige, then the pit

    Petro Kasui Kibe1

  313. July 1639

    Dies in the pit, aged 52 (Disputed) Disputed

    Petro Kasui Kibe138212212236

  314. 20 July 1639

    Caron's diary notes three missionaries in prison in Edo

    Petro Kasui Kibe3

  315. 4 Aug 1639

    Ban on Portuguese ships

    The Expulsion of the Portuguese, 1639910

  316. 2 November 1639

    Caron's diary records the account of Kibe's death by fire

    Petro Kasui Kibe32134

  317. 15 Nov 1639

    Macao envoys to Manila

    The Expulsion of the Portuguese, 163917

  318. 1640

    Inoue Masashige appointed inquisitor

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan3

  319. 1640

    Hirado warehouse demolished

    The Dutch and the Kirishitan ban1

  320. 1640
  321. 1640

    Shūmon aratame office; Inoue Masashige

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System16

  322. 1640

    Charge of religious inspection; daimyo

    Inoue Masashige (1585 to 1661): The Inquisitor12

  323. 1640

    Inoue Masashige first shūmon aratame commissioner

    Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604 to 1651): The Shogun of the Closed Country4

  324. 6 Jul 1640

    Embassy reaches Nagasaki

    The Expulsion of the Portuguese, 163917

  325. 3 Aug 1640
  326. 1641
  327. 1641
  328. 1642

    Rewards and five-household groups combined

    Chapter II: The Hidden Centuries1

  329. 1642, 1643

    Rubino and Chiara groups taken

    The Expulsion of the Portuguese, 163916

  330. 1642

    Rubino group

    Manila and Japan12

  331. 1642
  332. Aug 1642

    First Rubino group caught on Koshiki

    Giuseppe Chiara (Okamoto San'emon) and the Rubino Groups34

  333. 1643

    Interpreter for second Rubino group; *Breskens* interrogation

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)157

  334. 1643

    Second Rubino group (Chiara and others) lands 27 June; reaches Edo 27 August

    Inoue Masashige (1585 to 1661): The Inquisitor5

  335. 22 Mar 1643
  336. 27 Jun 1643

    Marques, Chiara and companions land in Chikuzen

    The Kirishitan Yashiki, Koishikawa4

  337. 27 Jun 1643

    Second group lands on Kajime Ōshima

    Giuseppe Chiara (Okamoto San'emon) and the Rubino Groups13

  338. 27 Aug 1643
  339. 20 Oct 1643
  340. 1644
  341. After 1644
  342. 1644
  343. 1644

    Inoue's letter to the Sō family on Chiara's route

    Giuseppe Chiara (Okamoto San'emon) and the Rubino Groups3

  344. 1646
  345. 1646
  346. 17 Nov 1646

    Verstegen's diary records his return to the faith and death

    Thomas Araki, the Priest from Rome Who Fell1

  347. 1647

    Siqueira de Sousa embassy

    The Expulsion of the Portuguese, 16391920

  348. 1647

    Sakitsu Suwa Shrine founded

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa12

  349. 1648
  350. 2 May 1649

    Marini's letter reports a Roman-ordained priest Tomaso among 14 martyrs

    Thomas Araki, the Priest from Rome Who Fell1

  351. 1650s

    San Jiwan and Bastian (Tradition) Tradition

    Kurosaki and its hidden Christians6

  352. 1650s

    Bastian and San Jiwan active in Sotome

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy2

  353. 4 Nov 1650
  354. 1651
  355. 1653

    Paulo de Bada's report from Tonkin

    Cristóvão Ferreira (Sawano Chūan)8

  356. 1654 (Jōō 3.4)
  357. 1657
  358. 1658
  359. 22 Feb 1658 (old calendar)

    Ōmura asks Nagasaki for fumi-e

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot1

  360. 12 Jun 1658
  361. 12 Aug 1658 (old calendar)

    Ōmura borrows two plates

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot1

  362. c.1659 to 1660s

    Arrest, prison, execution (Disputed) Disputed

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy16

  363. 1660s

    Treading extended to the whole population

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot5

  364. 1660

    Edict: five household groups and parish temples to investigate

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System1

  365. 1660

    Bartoli's history records his death

    Petro Kasui Kibe1

  366. 1661
  367. 1663
  368. 1664
  369. 1664 or 1665

    Domains ordered to set up inspection offices

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System1

  370. 1665

    Tomb commissioned

    Goa: the road to Japan1

  371. 1667
  372. 22 Aug 1667
  373. 1669
  374. 1669
  375. 1671
  376. 1674
  377. 1676
  378. 1680 (Enpō 8)
  379. 1682

    Notice board with rewards of 500 and 100 silver

    Chapter II: The Hidden Centuries6 · Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan9

  380. 1682 (Tenna 2.5)

    Board adds tachikaeri; believer 100

    Kōsatsu: The Notice Boards and the Price on a Christian12

  381. 1685

    Torii gate of the shrine dated

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa2

  382. 1685
  383. 24 Aug 1685
  384. 1693
  385. 27 Feb 1695
  386. Late 1700s

    Settlers, including hidden Christians, come to Hisaka

    Hisaka Island villages12

  387. Late 1700s or mid-1800s

    Hidden Christians settle with Maeda Gidayū (Disputed) Disputed

    Kashiragashima Village and Church23

  388. 1700s to 1800s

    Settlement of the former Hirado ranch, including hidden Christians (dates Disputed) Disputed

    Kuroshima Village and Church13

  389. Late 1700s

    Sotome families begin to settle the islands

    Shitsu Church and the Sotome villages13

  390. 1701

    Last of the 1643 group dies

    The Kirishitan Yashiki, Koishikawa5

  391. 31 Dec 1701

    Named to Tournon legation

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti1

  392. 4 Jul 1702

    Sails from Civitavecchia

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti1

  393. 22 Sep 1704
  394. 1708
  395. 1708

    Sidotti lands; Kirishitan yashiki

    The Expulsion of the Portuguese, 163921

  396. Oct 1708

    Sidotti lands on Yakushima

    The Kirishitan Yashiki, Koishikawa58

  397. 9 to 11 Oct 1708

    Lands on Yakushima; meets Tōbei

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti110

  398. 20 Dec 1708

    Imprisoned, Nagasaki

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti1

  399. 1709

    Sidotti in the yashiki; Hakuseki's questioning

    The Kirishitan Yashiki, Koishikawa35

  400. Dec 1709 to Jan 1710

    Interviews with Arai Hakuseki

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti110

  401. 1713

    Chōsuke and Haru declare their baptism

    The Kirishitan Yashiki, Koishikawa5

  402. 1714
  403. Winter 1714

    Chōsuke and Haru confess baptism; Sidotti put in underground cell

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti101

  404. 13 Nov 1714
  405. 27 Nov 1714

    Sidotti dies

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti1210

  406. 1724
  407. c. 1735

    Forged "1613" rules appear

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System1

  408. 1739

    Takagi family appointed magistrates

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki3

  409. 1745

    Kumamoto kagefumi circuit recorded

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot1

  410. c. 1760

    Government to Panjim

    Goa: the road to Japan2

  411. 1771

    Chifukuji moves to the hill

    Fuda-no-tsuji: The Great Martyrdom of Edo1

  412. 1772 to 1773

    Migrations to Mīraku

    The Gotō Islands and the Church9

  413. 1790
  414. 1790 to 1795, 1842, 1856
  415. 1790 (Kansei 2.7.17 to 7.22)

    Nineteen Urakami villagers arrested

    The Urakami Crackdowns of 1790, 1842 and 18562

  416. 1790 to 1795

    Takaya Eizaemon's denunciation; first crackdown

    The Takaya Headman's Estate: The Fumi-e Ground at Urakami5

  417. About Kansei 3.12 (early 1792)

    Nineteen freed; headman dismissed

    The Urakami Crackdowns of 1790, 1842 and 18562

  418. 1792 to 1793

    Renewed accusations; appeal in Edo

    The Urakami Crackdowns of 1790, 1842 and 18562

  419. 1792
  420. 1795 (Kansei 7.9)

    Letters to Enmeiji; affair closed

    The Urakami Crackdowns of 1790, 1842 and 18562

  421. 1797

    Nagasaki saijiki describes the New Year treading

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot3

  422. 1797

    Sotome Christians begin moving to Gotō

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan10

  423. 1797
  424. 28 Nov 1797

    108 settlers land at Rokuhō

    The Gotō Islands and the Church18

  425. 28 Nov 1797

    Kurosaki migrants land in Gotō

    Kurosaki and its hidden Christians9

  426. Mid-1800s

    Four families from Sotome settle Egami

    Egami Village and Church, Naru Island12

  427. 1800s

    Hidden Christians settle Nokubi and Funamori

    Nozaki Island village ruins3

  428. 1802

    Ranch closed; hidden Christians settle Warabi

    Kuroshima Village and Church2

  429. 1804 to 1805

    Amakusa kuzure: 5,205 found in four villages

    Chapter II: The Hidden Centuries112

  430. 1805
  431. 1805

    Amakusa kuzure, over 5,000 exposed

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan10

  432. 1805
  433. 1805

    Amakusa crackdown; 70 per cent of villagers found to be Christian

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa12

  434. 12 Sep 1806

    Ruling read out: an "alien sect" followed in error

    Chapter II: The Hidden Centuries12

  435. 1813
  436. c. 1823

    Born (from age 47 at death in 1870; approximate)

    Dominic Iwanaga Mataichi: The Last Baptizer of Urakami1

  437. 1823 or 1824
  438. 1825

    *Arte Breve* published in French, Paris

    João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Interpreter")9

  439. 14 Jun 1829
  440. 1830
  441. 1831
  442. 1835
  443. 1838

    Rome assigns Japan to the Paris Foreign Missions Society

    "Where Is Santa Maria?": The Discovery of the Hidden Christians, 17 March 18652

  444. 13 May 1838
  445. 1839 to 1842

    Second Urakami kuzure

    Chapter II: The Hidden Centuries4

  446. 1839
  447. 1839 or 1842
  448. 27 Mar 1840
  449. 1842
  450. 1842 (Tenpō 13)
  451. 21 Apr 1842
  452. 1846
  453. c. 1849

    Enters the Yōrōkan at 19

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy23

  454. 1853

    Studies under Ōkuni Takamasa in Kyoto

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy1

  455. 1853
  456. 21 May 1853
  457. 1854
  458. 1855
  459. 1856
  460. 1856

    Third Urakami kuzure; Iwanaga Mataichi the only surviving baptizer

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan1018

  461. 1856 or 1858

    Annual fumi-e ends in Nagasaki (Disputed) Disputed

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan1210

  462. 1856

    Chōkata Kichizō imprisoned, dies; office lapses

    The Keepers: Chōkata, Mizukata and the Lay Leaders of the Hidden Church6

  463. 1856

    Third Urakami crackdown; Kichizō arrested; figures confiscated; one taken to Tenpukuji

    Maria Kannon: Our Lady in Porcelain247

  464. 1856

    Hantamaruya figures confiscated in Urakami

    Mary in Japanese Catholic memory5

  465. 1856 (Ansei 3.9.18)
  466. 1856

    The last chōkata dies in prison (Moriyama line per Miwa)

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki4

  467. 1856 / 1867

    Urakami crackdowns; objects confiscated into the same store

    Fumi-e: The Christ Underfoot5

  468. 1856

    Bastian's camellia felled (per Nagasaki Shimbun)

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy1

  469. 1857
  470. 1857 or 1858
  471. 1857/1858
  472. 1857 (Ansei 4.7.14)

    Heads of household summoned to the West Office

    The Urakami Crackdowns of 1790, 1842 and 18562

  473. 1858

    Trade treaties with five powers

    Chapter II: The Hidden Centuries1 · Ōura Cathedral23

  474. 1858

    Magistrate's order ends it (JTA); US Japan treaty

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot57

  475. 1858

    Nagasaki magistrate orders the end of fumi-e

    Fumi-e: The Christ Underfoot3

  476. 27 Dec 1858
  477. 1859

    Nagasaki and other ports opened; foreign settlement

    "Where Is Santa Maria?": The Discovery of the Hidden Christians, 17 March 186524

  478. 1859 (Ansei 6.7)
  479. 1859

    Escapes by window; enters MEP

    Bernard Petitjean: The Priest Who Was Found1

  480. 4 Nov 1859
  481. 1860
  482. 1860 (Man'en 1)
  483. 1860 to 1862
  484. 1860

    Teaches national learning at the Yōrōkan

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy12

  485. 13 Mar 1860
  486. 1862
  487. 1862
  488. 1862

    Canonisation of the twenty-six

    Nagasaki: the Christian city4

  489. 1862

    Kyoto; Ryōzen rites for fallen loyalists

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy1

  490. 12 Jan 1862
  491. 8 Jun 1862
  492. 8 Jun 1862
  493. 8 Jun 1862

    Twenty-Six Martyrs canonised

    Ōura Cathedral3 · Saint Paul Miki1

  494. 9 Jun 1862
  495. 23 Sep 1862
  496. 20 Dec 1862
  497. 1863
  498. 1863

    Furet obtains the site; Petitjean arrives

    Ōura Cathedral24

  499. 1863
  500. 1863

    Returns west with the seven nobles

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy1

  501. Jan 1863

    Fr Furet arrives in Nagasaki to find a church site

    The Statue of Santa Maria at Ōura (Virgin of the Discovery)1

  502. 22 Jan 1863
  503. 16 Mar 1863
  504. 3 Jul 1863
  505. Early Aug 1863
  506. c. Oct 1863
  507. 1864
  508. End 1864

    Completed

    Ōura Cathedral25

  509. 1864

    Church built at Ōura, facing Nishizaka

    Ōura Cathedral12

  510. 1864
  511. 1864-65

    Ōura side glass bought through Nagasaki merchants (per Church Trust)

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches6

  512. Jan 1864
  513. c. Jan 1864

    Fr Girard signs the building contract with Koyama Hidenoshin

    The Statue of Santa Maria at Ōura (Virgin of the Discovery)1

  514. 27 Apr 1864
  515. Oct 1864
  516. Nov 1864
  517. 29 Dec 1864
III

Discovery and Exile

1865 to 1873 · Read Chapter III · 148 events

  1. 1858 to 1859

    Treaties; Nagasaki, Yokohama and Hakodate opened

    Chapter III: Discovery and Exile13

  2. 1865 to 1867
  3. 1865
  4. 1865
  5. 1865 to 1867

    Four chapels built and served from Ōura

    The Raid on the Four Secret Chapels of Urakami, 15 July 18672

  6. Late 1865

    Attic seminary

    Ōura Cathedral5

  7. 1865

    Hisaka leaders visit Ōura after the Discovery

    Hisaka Island villages2

  8. 1865

    News of the Discovery at Ōura reaches Hirado

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado1

  9. 1865

    Kashiragashima leaders visit Ōura

    Kashiragashima Village and Church3

  10. 1865

    Kuroshima representatives visit Ōura

    Kuroshima Village and Church4

  11. 1865 onward

    Shitsu returns to the Church in stages

    Shitsu Church and the Sotome villages1

  12. 1865

    Le Mans Carmelites give the altar window to Ōura

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches1

  13. 1865

    Discovery at Ōura; prophecy seen as fulfilled

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy10

  14. 1865 to 1866
  15. 1865 to 1866

    Gift from visiting believers; statue ordered from France

    Our Lady of Japan: The Statue at Ōura's Gate (1867)12

  16. 1865 to 1867

    House becomes the St Joseph chapel

    Takagi Sen'emon: "Even If a Hundred Become One"1

  17. 19 Feb 1865
  18. 17 Mar 1865

    The discovery: "Where is Santa Maria?"

    Chapter III: Discovery and Exile12 · "Where Is Santa Maria?": The Discovery of the Hidden Christians, 17 March 18651234 · Hidden Christians and Kakure Kirishitan: Keeping the Faith Without Priests210 · The Tabi: The Fourth Urakami Crackdown and the Exile of a Village, 1867 to 18732 · Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan12 · The canonisation of the Twenty-Six Martyrs, 18621 · The first Japanese priests of the modern era, 18824 · The great ship: the Macao trade and the mission18 · Maria Kannon: Our Lady in Porcelain1 · Mary in Japanese Catholic memory3 · The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 20184 · The Urakami Crackdowns of 1790, 1842 and 18567 · The Raid on the Four Secret Chapels of Urakami, 15 July 18671 · Ōura Cathedral8 · Urakami: The Village That Kept the Faith4 · Twenty-Six Martyrs Monument, Nishizaka6 · Ōno Church and Ōno Village, Sotome10 · Shitsu Church and the Sotome villages15 · Nagasaki: the Christian city6 · Maria Kannon: Mary in the Guise of Kannon5 · Ōura Church as First Built (1864‑1865)1 · The Statue of Santa Maria at Ōura (Virgin of the Discovery)12 · Bernard Petitjean: The Priest Who Was Found5 · Sugimoto Yuri: The Woman Who Spoke First13 · Dominic Iwanaga Mataichi: The Last Baptizer of Urakami1 · Bishop Joseph-Marie Laucaigne (1838 to 1885): Petitjean's Night Missionary13 · Our Lady of Japan: The Statue at Ōura's Gate (1867)12

  19. 18 Mar 1865

    Crowds all day; Petitjean's first letter, to Girard

    "Where Is Santa Maria?": The Discovery of the Hidden Christians, 17 March 18651

  20. 19 Mar 1865

    Feast of St Joseph; villagers at Mass; names given

    "Where Is Santa Maria?": The Discovery of the Hidden Christians, 17 March 18651

  21. 22 Mar 1865
  22. 23 Mar 1865

    Secret meeting on Mount Konpira: baptism never stopped in Urakami

    "Where Is Santa Maria?": The Discovery of the Hidden Christians, 17 March 18651

  23. 8 and 18 Apr 1865
  24. 18 Apr 1865
  25. 8 Jun 1865

    Knows of 25 Christian groups

    Bernard Petitjean: The Priest Who Was Found1

  26. 29 Jun 1865
  27. Dec 1865
  28. 23 Dec 1865
  29. 1866

    Notre-Dame de Miyako made and named

    Kyoto (Miyako) and the Church1

  30. 1866
  31. 7 May 1866
  32. 11 May 1866
  33. 11 May / 21 Oct 1866

    Named and consecrated bishop

    Bernard Petitjean: The Priest Who Was Found1

  34. 21 Oct 1866

    Petitjean consecrated at Hong Kong

    Our Lady of Japan: The Statue at Ōura's Gate (1867)5

  35. 1867 to 1873
  36. 1867
  37. 1867
  38. 1867

    Crosses, medals and rosaries given by Petitjean confiscated in Urakami

    Maria Kannon: Our Lady in Porcelain9

  39. Late 1867 (Keiō 3)

    Magistrate Kawazu asks Sen'emon to believe "only in the heart"

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)1

  40. 1867
  41. 1867

    Urakami Christians refuse Buddhist funerals; raid of 15 July (Burkman: 13 July; Disputed) Disputed

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System5

  42. Keiō 3.3.2 (1867)

    Sanpachi's mother buried without the temple

    The Raid on the Four Secret Chapels of Urakami, 15 July 18675

  43. 1867

    Domingo Matsujirō moves to the island; Father Cousin says Mass

    Kashiragashima Village and Church23

  44. 1867

    Arrests in Urakami (the fourth kuzure)

    Ōura Cathedral9

  45. 1867 to 1873
  46. 1867

    Ten representatives go to the headman to cut ties with the family temple

    The Takaya Headman's Estate: The Fumi-e Ground at Urakami6

  47. Summer 1867

    All the other prisoners recant; he does not

    Takagi Sen'emon: "Even If a Hundred Become One"4

  48. 14th day, 9th month, Keiō 3 (1867)

    Returns home; 38 withdraw their recantation

    Takagi Sen'emon: "Even If a Hundred Become One"5

  49. Late 1867

    Interview with magistrate Kawazu

    Takagi Sen'emon: "Even If a Hundred Become One"6

  50. Feb 1867

    Cousin's secret visit

    The Gotō Islands and the Church15

  51. 5 Feb 1867
  52. Apr 1867
  53. 2 Jun 1867
  54. 2 Jun 1867
  55. Jul 1867

    Arrested Christians taken first to the district headman

    The Persimmon Tree and the Headman's Water Basin, Urakami3

  56. Jul 1867
  57. Jul 1867
  58. 7 Jul 1867
  59. 7 Jul 1867
  60. 7 Jul 1867
  61. 13 Jul 1867
  62. 14 to 15 July 1867

    Arrested in the raid on the chapels

    Takagi Sen'emon: "Even If a Hundred Become One"1

  63. 15 Jul 1867
  64. 15 Jul 1867
  65. 15 Jul 1867

    Arrested at the St Francis Xavier chapel

    Moriyama Jinzaburō: "Please Tie Me"23

  66. 9 Dec 1867 (old calendar)
  67. 1868
  68. 1868

    New government's boards renew the ban; 114 Urakami leaders exiled

    The Ban Lifted, 187325

  69. 1868

    Gotō crackdown begins

    The Ban Lifted, 18735

  70. 1868

    Boards revived by the Meiji government

    Kōsatsu: The Notice Boards and the Price on a Christian56

  71. From 1868

    Terauke discontinued in the separation of Shinto and Buddhism

    Terauke: The Temple Certificate System5

  72. Summer 1868

    28 Urakami leaders arrive at Tsuwano; held at Kōrinji

    The Urakami Exiles at Tsuwano, 1868 to 187323

  73. Meiji 1.10.9 (1868)

    Wasaburō dies after the cage

    The Urakami Exiles at Tsuwano, 1868 to 18736

  74. 1868

    Imprisonment at Rōya no Sako; 42 die

    Hisaka Island villages34

  75. 1868

    De Rotz lands in Nagasaki

    Shitsu Church and the Sotome villages4

  76. 1868
  77. 1868

    Hisaka arrests; Gotō kuzure

    The Gotō Islands and the Church113

  78. 1868
  79. 1868

    Judge, office for Shinto affairs; urges exile for Urakami

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy14

  80. First exile (see tsuwano-exile-1868-1873)
  81. Meiji 1 (1868), 4th to intercalary 4th month

    Government decides on deportation of the Urakami Christians

    Kataoka Sada: "We Could Say Our Prayers Out Loud"1

  82. 1868
  83. 4th month 1868
  84. 1868 to 1870

    Over 3,000 exiled to some 20 domains

    Ōkubo Toshimichi and the Urakami question29

  85. Mar 1868
  86. Mar 1868

    New government's boards repeat the ban

    Ōkubo Toshimichi and the Urakami question4

  87. 15 Apr 1868
  88. 25 Apr 1868
  89. Jul 1868
  90. 20 to 21 Jul 1868

    Deportations; leaves for Penang with ten seminarians

    Jules-Alphonse Cousin, first bishop of Nagasaki1

  91. 21 Jul 1868
  92. 16 Dec 1868

    Fifty-nine Christians of Okuura seized and jailed at Uragashira

    Dozaki Church16

  93. Meiji 2.1 (early 1869)

    Yasutarō's vision; he dies

    The Urakami Exiles at Tsuwano, 1868 to 187367

  94. Meiji 2.11.26 (end of 1869)
  95. 1869

    Exile sentences read at the Takaya house

    Urakami Cathedral1

  96. 1869
  97. 1869 to 1870

    Europe; Vatican Council; Lexicon printed in Rome (1870)

    Bernard Petitjean: The Priest Who Was Found124

  98. 1869

    Tutor to the emperor; families sent to Tsuwano

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy16

  99. 1869 or 1870

    Dinner with the eleven

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy7

  100. 1869
  101. 1869 to 1870
  102. Meiji 2.1.20 (1869)
  103. Late 1869 to early 1870

    125 family members arrive; message left for them

    Moriyama Jinzaburō: "Please Tie Me"5

  104. 1870 to 1873

    117 exiles held on Tsurushima

    Chapter III: Discovery and Exile11

  105. 1870

    3,394 Urakami Christians exiled; foreign ministers protest

    The Ban Lifted, 18735

  106. Meiji 2.12 to Meiji 3.1 (early 1870)

    About 125 family members arrive

    The Urakami Exiles at Tsuwano, 1868 to 1873212

  107. 1870

    125 more arrive

    Otome-tōge, Tsuwano2

  108. 1870

    Whole village exiled; 3,394 to twenty domains

    Otome-tōge, Tsuwano1

  109. 1870
  110. 1870
  111. 1870
  112. 1870 (or 1871)
  113. 1870

    Assistant vice minister, Jingikan

    Fukuba Bisei and the Tsuwano policy1

  114. Meiji 3, 6th month (summer 1870)

    Able-bodied sent to Hikata salt works; Sada into the horse stable

    Kataoka Sada: "We Could Say Our Prayers Out Loud"14

  115. 1870
  116. Meiji 3 閏10.18 (1870)
  117. Jan 1870

    3,394 exiled (Disputed) Disputed

    Chapter III: Discovery and Exile5613

  118. Jan 1870
  119. Meiji 2, end of 11th month (1 Jan 1870)
  120. Meiji 2, 12th month, 4th to 7th (January 1870)

    Men leave; women summoned; Sada and her daughters gather in the snow, praying the rosary aloud; shipped

    Kataoka Sada: "We Could Say Our Prayers Out Loud"1

  121. 5 to 7 Jan 1870
  122. 6 Jan 1870
  123. 9 Nov 1870
  124. 2 Dec 1870
  125. 1871

    Iwakura Mission sets out

    The Ban Lifted, 187325

  126. 1871
  127. 1871
  128. 1871
  129. Meiji 3.11.26 (early 1871)
  130. 1871

    Kusumoto's inspection; rations improve

    The Urakami Exiles at Tsuwano, 1868 to 187313

  131. 1871 to 1873
  132. Meiji 4, 1st to 2nd month (early 1871)

    Survivors moved to longhouses; inspection by Kusumoto Masataka

    Kataoka Sada: "We Could Say Our Prayers Out Loud"15

  133. 1871
  134. About 1871 to 1872

    Journey to Kobe and Osaka; returns to prison

    Moriyama Jinzaburō: "Please Tie Me"5

  135. 3rd month 1871

    Watanabe Noboru writes to Hirosawa and Ōkubo

    Ōkubo Toshimichi and the Urakami question4

  136. Meiji 4.10.3 (1871)

    Shūmon ninbetsu-chō abolished on Ōkubo and Inoue's proposal

    Ōkubo Toshimichi and the Urakami question4

  137. Meiji 3.11.26 (Jan 1871)
  138. 4 Sep 1871
  139. 28 Sep 1871
  140. Dec 1871
  141. 1872

    First Mass in the Deguchi house

    Kuroshima Village and Church24

  142. 1872 to 1873
  143. May 1872

    Ōkubo and Itō recommend removing the boards

    Ōkubo Toshimichi and the Urakami question5

  144. 7 Dec 1872
  145. 24 Feb 1873
  146. 14 Mar 1873
  147. 7 Apr to 7 Aug 1873

    Return; about 1,900 back; 736 homeless

    Chapter III: Discovery and Exile7

  148. 4 Jun 1880
IV

The Modern Church

1873 to 1945 · Read Chapter IV · 341 events

  1. 1873

    Fraineau arrives in Nagasaki

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church6

  2. 1873
  3. After 1873
  4. 1873
  5. 1873
  6. 1873

    Lifting of the prohibition

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 201834

  7. 1873
  8. After 1873

    First Christmas Mass of the new era on the beach

    Dozaki Church1

  9. 1873

    Whole community returns to the Church

    Kuroshima Village and Church3

  10. 1873 onward

    Ōno Christians return and walk to Shitsu

    Ōno Church and Ōno Village, Sotome1

  11. After 1873

    Fraineau's open-air Mass

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  12. 1873
  13. 1873
  14. Meiji 6, 3rd month (1873)
  15. 1873

    Return to Ipponki; kankoro and Sunday Mass at Ōura

    Kataoka Sada: "We Could Say Our Prayers Out Loud"2

  16. 1873

    Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar

    Pope Gregory XIII and Japan11

  17. 24 Feb 1873
  18. 24 Feb 1873
  19. 14 Mar 1873

    Order to return the exiles

    The Ban Lifted, 18732

  20. 7 April 1873

    Arrive at Nagasaki, Palm Sunday

    Kataoka Sada: "We Could Say Our Prayers Out Loud"62

  21. May 1873
  22. 29 May 1873
  23. Apr to Aug 1873

    Exiles return; 736 homeless in September

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan13

  24. 7 Apr to 7 Aug 1873
  25. Sep 1873

    736 returnees without houses

    The Ban Lifted, 18738

  26. 1874

    Collection passed from Nagasaki Prefecture to the Ministry of Doctrine

    Maria Kannon: Our Lady in Porcelain9

  27. 1874

    Women's community at Urakami (Iwanaga Maki)

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)3

  28. 1874
  29. 1874

    Dysentery and smallpox; de Rotz and Iwanaga Maki

    Urakami: The Village That Kept the Faith13

  30. 1874

    Castle walls pulled down for the railway

    Takatsuki: Justo Takayama Ukon's Christian Castle Town2

  31. 1874

    Dysentery; 162 nursed at Kurosaki

    Kurosaki and its hidden Christians12

  32. 1874
  33. 1874
  34. 1874 onward

    Shelters, then gives his house and land to Iwanaga Maki and companions

    Takagi Sen'emon: "Even If a Hundred Become One"10

  35. 22 Feb 1874
  36. 22 Feb 1874
  37. Jul 1874

    Dysentery and smallpox; de Rotz and the Jūjikai

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church1 · The Ban Lifted, 18732

  38. 1875

    Latin Seminary opens

    Ōura Cathedral1

  39. 1875 or 1879
  40. 1875
  41. Oct 1875
  42. 1876, 1888

    Japan divided into two, then three vicariates

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)3

  43. 1876

    Vicar apostolic of Southern Japan; Osaka

    Bernard Petitjean: The Priest Who Was Found1

  44. Nov 1876

    Marmand leaves France for Japan, then southern Gotō

    Dozaki Church7

  45. 1877

    Permanent priest on the island

    Dozaki Church1

  46. Oct 1877
  47. 1878

    Fr Albert Pélu comes to Hirado; Catholic baptisms begin

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New9

  48. 17 Mar 1878
  49. 14 May 1878

    Assassinated at Shimizudani

    Ōkubo Toshimichi and the Urakami question17

  50. 1879
  51. 1879

    Marmand's wooden church (Visit GOTO; Disputed) Disputed

    Dozaki Church2

  52. 1879

    First wooden church at Ōso

    Kashiragashima Village and Church27

  53. 1879

    First church, by Father Pelu (World Heritage panel)

    Kuroshima Village and Church12

  54. 1879
  55. 1879

    Chapel of St John the Baptist at Doi

    Urakami Cathedral1

  56. 1879 to 1880

    Return of hidden Christians at Yamada, with Kuroshima Catholics' help

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New8

  57. 1879

    Statue dug up; mission resumes

    Kyoto (Miyako) and the Church1

  58. 1879
  59. 1879
  60. 1879

    Ōura rebuilt; most of today's glass dates from here (per prefecture)

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches4

  61. 1879

    Church enlarged and doubled; statue moved to the main entrance

    Our Lady of Japan: The Statue at Ōura's Gate (1867)7

  62. 13 Jan 1879
  63. 22 May 1879
  64. 1880

    First small church at Dozaki

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church23

  65. 1880

    Urakami Christians buy the Takaya house

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot4

  66. 1880

    Marmand's temporary church (Goto City; Disputed) Disputed

    Dozaki Church1

  67. 1880

    First church, by the believers (prefecture site)

    Kuroshima Village and Church3

  68. 1880s

    Catholic cemetery replaces Shikirimaki graveyard

    Kuroshima Village and Church2

  69. 1880

    Two resident priests

    The Gotō Islands and the Church1

  70. 1880

    Headman's house repaired as temporary church

    The First Urakami Cathedral (1895‑1925)3

  71. 1880 to 1887
  72. 1880
  73. 4 Jun 1880
  74. 15 Aug 1880
  75. 1881

    Egami families baptised

    Egami Village and Church, Naru Island1

  76. 1881

    Hamawaki church, the island's first

    Hisaka Island villages13

  77. 1881

    First church at Funamori (Setowaki)

    Nozaki Island village ruins14

  78. 1881

    Cross raised on Jūjiyama

    Urakami Cathedral1

  79. 14 Sep 1881

    Jūjiyama cross raised in reparation for the treading

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot4

  80. 14 Sep 1881
  81. 14 Sep 1881
  82. 17 Dec 1881
  83. 17 Dec 1881
  84. 1882
  85. 1882 to 1894

    23 Japanese priests ordained

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)3

  86. 1882

    First church at Nokubi

    Nozaki Island village ruins14

  87. 1882

    Three Penang seminarians ordained

    Jules-Alphonse Cousin, first bishop of Nagasaki1

  88. 31 Dec 1882
  89. 1883

    Shitsu workshop for village women

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church21

  90. 1883
  91. 17 Sep 1883
  92. 19 Sep 1883
  93. 1884

    Christian burials still difficult until at least this year

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)2

  94. 1884

    Petitjean buried in the sanctuary

    Ōura Cathedral10

  95. 1884

    Petitjean's last "pilgrimage" to the statue and cross

    Our Lady of Japan: The Statue at Ōura's Gate (1867)5

  96. 21 Aug 1884
  97. 7 Oct 1884
  98. 18 or 19 Jan 1885
  99. 21 Sep 1885
  100. 1886

    Unosawa Tatsuo goes to Germany to train

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches58

  101. 1887

    First wooden church on Kashiragashima

    Kashiragashima Village and Church2

  102. 1887
  103. 1887
  104. 1888
  105. 1888

    First church built beside the shrine

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa13

  106. 1888

    Father Compagnon comes to Yamaguchi

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church1

  107. 1888

    MEP report mentions the legend (per Matsukawa)

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy1

  108. 1888
  109. Apr 1888

    Catholic mission reopens at Katamachi

    Kanazawa: Justo Takayama Ukon's Twenty-Six Years in Kaga2

  110. Sep 1888
  111. 1889
  112. 1889
  113. 1889

    Halbout arrives in Japan

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa4

  114. 11 Feb 1889

    Constitution promulgated; Mori Arinori attacked

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)45

  115. 1890
  116. 1890
  117. 8 Jan 1890

    Unosawa returns with glass and a lead mill

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches58

  118. Mar 1890
  119. 1 May 1890

    Kawaramachi church dedicated

    Kyoto (Miyako) and the Church1

  120. 30 Oct 1890

    Imperial Rescript on Education

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)5

  121. 1891

    Four dioceses; Tokyo an archdiocese

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)3

  122. 1891
  123. 1891
  124. 1891

    Diocese of Nagasaki

    Nagasaki: the Christian city15

  125. 15 Jun 1891

    Diocese of Nagasaki; Ōura its cathedral

    Ōura Cathedral4

  126. 4 Oct 1891
  127. 1892
  128. 1893

    Ōno chapel built

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church21

  129. 1893

    Ōno church built by de Rotz

    Ōno Church and Ōno Village, Sotome12

  130. 1893

    De Rotz builds Ōno church

    Shitsu Church and the Sotome villages12

  131. 1893

    Villion finds the Daidōji site

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church1

  132. 1893
  133. 1893
  134. 4 Oct 1893
  135. 1894

    Unosawa's first stained glass made in Japan

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church16

  136. 1894
  137. 1894
  138. 1894

    First Japanese-made stained glass, Tokyo Prefectural Office

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches58

  139. About 1894
  140. Jan 1894
  141. 14 Jul 1894
  142. 1895
  143. 1895

    Construction of the cathedral begins

    Urakami Cathedral23 · The First Urakami Cathedral (1895‑1925)34

  144. 1896
  145. 1897

    Father Marmand arrives

    Kuroshima Village and Church3

  146. 1897 to 1899
  147. 1897

    Doi chapel dismantled; Sen'emon's objection

    The Takaya Headman's Estate: The Fumi-e Ground at Urakami2

  148. 8 Sep 1897
  149. 15 Feb 1899

    Esumi Yasu born, Shimane

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki16

  150. 13 April 1899
  151. 1900

    Shrine and temple bureau divided

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)13

  152. 1900

    Present church begun

    Kuroshima Village and Church3

  153. About 1901 to 1902

    Works on the old Sone church under Father Pelu

    Tetsukawa Yosuke, Builder of the Island Churches1

  154. 1902

    Kuroshima church finished

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church21

  155. 1902

    Present church completed and blessed

    Kuroshima Village and Church13

  156. 1902
  157. 1904, 1907
  158. c. 1905

    Work halted for a time by inflation

    The First Urakami Cathedral (1895‑1925)4

  159. Sept 1905
  160. Dec 1905
  161. 1906

    Magistrate's Christian objects shown at the Imperial Household Museum

    Fumi-e: The Picture Underfoot7

  162. 1906

    First wooden church at Egami

    Egami Village and Church, Naru Island3

  163. 1906

    First public display at the imperial museum

    Fumi-e: The Christ Underfoot36 · Maria Kannon: Mary in the Guise of Kannon4

  164. 1906
  165. 1906
  166. 1907

    Pelu's brick church completed

    Dozaki Church14

  167. 1907
  168. 14 Aug 1907
  169. 1908

    Present Dozaki church completed by Nohara Yokichi

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church23

  170. 1908

    Tetsukawa builds Nokubi church, Nozaki Island

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church24

  171. 1908
  172. 1908
  173. 1908

    Brick church consecrated

    Dozaki Church12

  174. 1908

    Brick church at Nokubi by Tetsukawa Yosuke

    Nozaki Island village ruins15

  175. 1908
  176. 1908

    Associate member, Architectural Institute of Japan

    Tetsukawa Yosuke, Builder of the Island Churches1

  177. 3 Feb 1908
  178. 1909

    Shitsu Church enlarged again

    Shitsu Church and the Sotome villages2

  179. 1909, 1943, 1950

    Gravestone moved to Zōshigaya, Nerima, Chōfu

    Giuseppe Chiara (Okamoto San'emon) and the Rubino Groups2

  180. 1910 to 1919

    Kashiragashima stone church built

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church9

  181. 1910

    Stone church begun; Aosagaura brick church built

    Kashiragashima Village and Church42

  182. 1910

    Ogawa Sanchi opens his studio (Unverified) Unverified

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches9

  183. 1910
  184. 24 Jan 1911
  185. 25 Jan 1911
  186. 10 Jun 1911

    Ordained, Lateran; meets Walsh and Price

    Januarius Hayasaka Kyūnosuke: The First Japanese Bishop3

  187. Aug 1911

    Returns to Japan (Hakodate diocese)

    Januarius Hayasaka Kyūnosuke: The First Japanese Bishop12

  188. Sep 1911
  189. 18 Sep 1911
  190. 1912

    Yamada Church completed (or 1913 dedication: Disputed) Disputed

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New29

  191. 1912 to 1919
  192. 1913

    Hirado Catholic Church built on the present nursery site

    St Francis Xavier Memorial Church, Hirado34

  193. 1913

    Imamura; office moves to Nagasaki

    Tetsukawa Yosuke, Builder of the Island Churches18

  194. 1914 or 18 Mar 1915

    Urakami Cathedral dedicated (Disputed) Disputed

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church5615 · Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan27

  195. 1914 / 1925

    Cathedral completed / towers

    The Atomic Bomb and Urakami, 9 August 19453

  196. 1914

    Church completed (consecrated per JTA; Disputed) Disputed

    Urakami Cathedral2311

  197. 1914
  198. 1914 / 1915

    Dedication (date disputed)

    The First Urakami Cathedral (1895‑1925)345

  199. 7 Nov 1914
  200. 1915

    Archbishop's house rebuilt (now museum)

    Ōura Cathedral1

  201. 1915

    Cathedral finished (parish date; 1914 elsewhere: Disputed) Disputed

    The Persimmon Tree and the Headman's Water Basin, Urakami1

  202. 18 Mar 1915

    Dedicated to the Immaculate Conception (parish; Disputed) Disputed

    Urakami Cathedral2 · Tetsukawa Yosuke, Builder of the Island Churches1

  203. 18 Mar 1915
  204. 1916

    Ōso church finished

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church25

  205. 1916

    Ōso brick church by Tetsukawa

    Kashiragashima Village and Church27

  206. 1916
  207. c. 1916 to 1917
  208. 1916
  209. 21 Jun 1917
  210. 16 Oct 1917

    Founds the Militia of the Immaculata

    St Maximilian Kolbe in Nagasaki (1930 to 1936)1

  211. 1918
  212. 1918

    Present Egami church built

    Egami Village and Church, Naru Island23

  213. 1918
  214. 1918

    Egami church completed, with hand-painted glass

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches16

  215. 3 Mar 1918

    Pélu dies at Nagasaki

    Dozaki Church8

  216. 28 Apr 1918
  217. 14 May 1918
  218. 1919
  219. 1919

    Kashiragashima stone church

    The Gotō Islands and the Church11

  220. 1919
  221. 1920
  222. 1920

    50th anniversary of the exile; "Foundation of Faith" monument

    The First Urakami Cathedral (1895‑1925)4

  223. Aug 1920

    50th anniversary of the exile; "Cornerstone of Faith" monument

    The Takaya Headman's Estate: The Fumi-e Ground at Urakami8

  224. Sept 1920

    Akezu no hitsu opened at the Higashi house

    The Kobe Portrait of Saint Francis Xavier1

  225. 1921
  226. Dec 1921
  227. 1922

    "Light of Faith" monument

    Otome-tōge, Tsuwano3

  228. 1922

    *Knight of the Immaculata* begins

    St Maximilian Kolbe in Nagasaki (1930 to 1936)15

  229. 1923

    Kantō earthquake destroys much early glass

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches10

  230. 27 Mar 1923
  231. 24 Dec 1923
  232. 1924
  233. 1924
  234. 1924
  235. 8 Jun 1924
  236. 1925

    Urakami's twin towers finished

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church5

  237. 1925
  238. 1925

    Twin towers of the old Urakami church completed (builder per Kawakami)

    Tetsukawa Yosuke, Builder of the Island Churches120

  239. Apr 1925

    Army officers assigned to schools

    Sophia University and Yasukuni Shrine, 19321

  240. 1926

    Priest's room added on the south side

    Ōno Church and Ōno Village, Sotome3

  241. 13 May 1926

    Ministry of Education religious commission

    Januarius Hayasaka Kyūnosuke: The First Japanese Bishop2

  242. 1927 to 1929

    Yonezawa execution ground acquired and memorial cross erected

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 200812

  243. 1927

    Halbout comes to Sakitsu

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa4

  244. 1927

    Urakawa Wasaburō, *Kirishitan no fukkatsu*

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy1

  245. 1927
  246. Jul 1927

    Nagasaki entrusted to Japanese clergy

    Januarius Hayasaka Kyūnosuke: The First Japanese Bishop12

  247. 30 Oct 1927
  248. 30 Oct 1927
  249. 1928

    Sophia applies for an officer

    Sophia University and Yasukuni Shrine, 19321

  250. 1928

    Nagasaki Medical College

    Nagai Takashi: The Doctor of Nyokodō1

  251. 1928

    Nagai lodges with the Moriyama family

    Nagai Midori45

  252. 1928

    First reinforced concrete church

    Tetsukawa Yosuke, Builder of the Island Churches1

  253. 5 Feb 1928
  254. 17 Feb to 17 Mar 1928
  255. 29 Mar 1928
  256. 25 Apr 1928
  257. 1 Nov 1928

    *Nagasaki Katorikku Kyōhō* founded

    Januarius Hayasaka Kyūnosuke: The First Japanese Bishop2

  258. Before 1929

    Statue placed above the altar (when Noguchi was 12 or 13)

    The Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)1

  259. 1929

    Noguchi enters the Trappist monastery in Hokkaido

    The Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)1

  260. 1930s

    Campaign against Catholics on Amami Ōshima

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church12

  261. 1930
  262. 7 Mar 1930
  263. 24 Apr 1930
  264. 24 Apr 1930
  265. May 1930

    *Knight of the Immaculata* (Japanese) first issue

    Januarius Hayasaka Kyūnosuke: The First Japanese Bishop5

  266. 24 May 1930

    First Japanese *Seibo no Kishi*

    St Maximilian Kolbe in Nagasaki (1930 to 1936)3

  267. 25 May 1930
  268. 1931

    Present church built, dedicated to St Michael

    St Francis Xavier Memorial Church, Hirado345

  269. 1931

    Hamawaki rebuilt in concrete; old church moved to Gorin

    Hisaka Island villages13

  270. 1931

    Tsuwano Catholic Church built

    Otome-tōge, Tsuwano3

  271. 1931

    Gorin receives old Hamawaki church

    The Gotō Islands and the Church13

  272. Apr 1931
  273. Apr 1931
  274. Sept 1931
  275. Nov 1931
  276. 1932

    Sophia University and Yasukuni

    The Meiji Constitution and Article 28 (1889)13

  277. 1932

    Bought by Ikenaga Hajime

    The Kobe Nanban Screens by Kanō Naizen1

  278. 1932
  279. 1932 or 1933
  280. 5 May 1932
  281. 5 May 1932
  282. 14 Jun 1932

    Threat to withdraw the officer

    Sophia University and Yasukuni Shrine, 193212

  283. 5 Jul 1932

    Students told of Chambon's permission

    Sophia University and Yasukuni Shrine, 19322

  284. 18 Sep 1932

    About 100 Sophia students salute at Yasukuni

    Sophia University and Yasukuni Shrine, 193223

  285. 22 Sep 1932
  286. 30 Sep 1932

    Ministry of Education: the bow is patriotism and loyalty

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church11

  287. 30 Sep 1932
  288. 1 Oct 1932
  289. 21 Oct 1932

    Sophia's notice in *Tokyo Asahi*

    Sophia University and Yasukuni Shrine, 19321

  290. 1 Dec 1932

    Taguchi's The Catholic View of the State

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church26

  291. 1 Dec 1932
  292. 7 Dec 1932
  293. 1933
  294. 1933 to 1934

    Army service, Manchuria

    Nagai Takashi: The Doctor of Nyokodō1

  295. 1933

    Returns from Dalian to Kobe

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence13

  296. 23 Jan 1933

    National Treasure

    Ōura Cathedral24

  297. 24 Sep 1933
  298. 8 Oct 1933
  299. 8 Oct 1933
  300. Dec 1933
  301. 1934

    Present church built on the headman's site

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa14

  302. 1934
  303. Jun 1934

    Nagai Takashi baptised

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church18 · Nagai Midori2

  304. 9 Jun 1934

    Congregation founded at Ōura

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki24

  305. 9 Jun 1934
  306. Jun / Aug 1934
  307. Aug 1934

    Takashi Nagai marries Moriyama Midori

    Nagai Makoto and Kayano, the children of Nyokodō1

  308. 1935

    Ikenaga Hajime buys the painting

    The Kobe Portrait of Saint Francis Xavier2

  309. Apr 1935

    Junshin Jogakuin opens, Nakamachi

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki45

  310. 4 Apr 1935
  311. 23 Jun 1935

    Baptised, Shukugawa

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence1

  312. 8 Dec 1935
  313. 1936

    Pluries instanterque

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church11

  314. 1936
  315. Apr 1936
  316. May 1936
  317. 26 May 1936
  318. 1937

    Ieno-machi campus; Hayasaka resigns

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki245

  319. 1937 to 1940
  320. 24 Feb 1937
  321. 17 Jun 1937

    Apostolic prefecture

    Kyoto (Miyako) and the Church10

  322. Jul 1937

    Nagai goes to China as an army doctor

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church18

  323. 7 Nov 1937

    Consecrated bishop of Nagasaki

    Paul Yamaguchi Aijirō, bishop of the bomb years14

  324. 1938

    Approved by Propaganda Fide

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki2

  325. 1938

    National historic site (30 May)

    Hara Castle Ruins25

  326. 30 May 1938

    Hara Castle designated a National Historic Site

    The Shimabara Uprising, 1637 to 16382

  327. 1939

    Religious Organizations Law

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church13

  328. 1939

    Kōrinji land bought

    Otome-tōge, Tsuwano3

  329. 1939

    Monument of the Sacred Flame

    Unzen Jigoku3

  330. 1939
  331. 8 Apr 1939

    Religious Organizations Law (in force 1 Apr 1940\)

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan31

  332. 19 Sep to Dec 1939
  333. 17 Feb 1941
  334. May 1941

    Nippon Tenshu Kōkyō Kyōdan formed under Doi Tatsuo

    Chapter IV: The Modern Church14 · Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan32

  335. 28 May 1941
  336. 14 Aug 1941

    Dies in the starvation bunker

    St Maximilian Kolbe in Nagasaki (1930 to 1936)61

  337. 18 Aug 1941
  338. 1943-45

    Noguchi conscripted; helps at Urakami between call-ups

    The Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)1

  339. 1943

    Keiō; Catholic hostel under Yoshimitsu

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence35

  340. Aug 1943
  341. Jun 1945
V

After the Bomb

1945 to today · Read Chapter V · 317 events

  1. 1945
  2. After 1945

    Transferred to the Tokyo National Museum

    Fumi-e: The Christ Underfoot6

  3. 8 Aug 1945

    Last parting

    Nagai Midori1

  4. 9 Aug 1945

    Bomb at 11:02 a.m. Frs Nishida and Tamaya killed

    Chapter V: After the Bomb12 · The Atomic Bomb and Urakami, 9 August 194515 · Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan33 · The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki24 · Mary in Japanese Catholic memory10 · Ōura Cathedral2 · Urakami: The Village That Kept the Faith1011 · Urakami Cathedral4 · Nagasaki: the Christian city9 · The Persimmon Tree and the Headman's Water Basin, Urakami1 · Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches25 · Ōura Church as First Built (1864‑1865)1 · The First Urakami Cathedral (1895‑1925)5 · Urakami Cathedral Rebuilt (1959, refaced 1980)1 · The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑195812 · Nagai Takashi: The Doctor of Nyokodō1 · Nagai Makoto and Kayano, the children of Nyokodō18 · Nagai Midori13 · Paul Yamaguchi Aijirō, bishop of the bomb years35

  5. 9 Aug 1945

    Nagai injured; Midori killed

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki4

  6. 9 Aug 1945
  7. 11 Aug 1945

    Nagai gathers and buries her remains

    Nagai Midori12

  8. 29 Aug 1945
  9. Sep 1945

    Mass in St Francis Hospital ruins

    The Atomic Bomb and Urakami, 9 August 19451

  10. Oct 1945

    Noguchi finds the head of Mary (approximate)

    Chapter V: After the Bomb8 · The Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)1

  11. Oct 1945

    Head of the Virgin found

    Mary in Japanese Catholic memory11

  12. 6 Oct 1945

    City councillors call for the ruins to be kept

    Chapter V: After the Bomb11 · The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19585

  13. 12 Aug to 8 Oct 1945

    11th Medical Relief Team

    Nagai Takashi: The Doctor of Nyokodō1

  14. 15 Oct 1945

    Family back at the Ueno-machi site

    Nagai Makoto and Kayano, the children of Nyokodō1 · Nagai Midori1

  15. Nov 1945

    Classes resume at Ōmura

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki4

  16. 23 Nov 1945

    Requiem with Bishop Urakawa; Nagai's eulogy

    Chapter V: After the Bomb1 · Nagai Takashi: The Doctor of Nyokodō4

  17. 23 Nov 1945
  18. Dec 1945
  19. 15 Dec 1945
  20. 24 Dec 1945
  21. 24 Dec 1945

    Rescued cathedral bell rings over the ruins

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan35

  22. 24 Dec 1945
  23. Spring 1946

    Yamahata photograph (slide 9)

    The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19587

  24. Jan 1946
  25. Mar 1946

    First postwar graduation; Nagai's address

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki5

  26. Jun 1946
  27. Aug 1946
  28. Aug 1946
  29. 3 Nov 1946
  30. 17 Nov 1946

    Last lecture; bedridden

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki1

  31. Dec 1946

    Temporary wooden church

    The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19584

  32. 1 Dec 1946
  33. 1 Dec 1946

    Temporary church blessed by Gilroy

    Paul Yamaguchi Aijirō, bishop of the bomb years3

  34. 1948
  35. 1948

    Madonna of the Thumb found at the Tokyo National Museum

    The Kirishitan Yashiki, Koishikawa1

  36. 1948
  37. Mar 1948

    Nyokodō finished; Nagai moves in

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki1

  38. Mar 1948
  39. 25 Mar 1948

    Preface of *Rosario no kusari* signed (published June 1948)

    Nagai Midori12

  40. Apr 1948
  41. Jul 1948

    Kameyama land bought

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church2

  42. Sept 1948

    Returns to Ōmura to encourage the sisters

    Januarius Hayasaka Kyūnosuke: The First Japanese Bishop2

  43. Sep 1948
  44. 18 Oct 1948

    Helen Keller visits (Disputed: 8 Oct) Disputed

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki14 · Nagai Takashi: The Doctor of Nyokodō1

  45. 15 Nov 1948
  46. 1949
  47. 1949

    Return to Urakami; first general chapter

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki24

  48. 1949

    400th anniversary; second church; Ijūin monument

    Xavier Lands at Kagoshima, 15 August 1549678

  49. 1949

    Second church; Xavier bust in the park

    Xavier in Kagoshima37

  50. 1949

    Rubble cleared by the Xavier feast

    The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19584

  51. 1949
  52. Jan 1949
  53. Nov 1949
  54. 3 Dec 1949
  55. 1950
  56. 1950

    Uchira no hondana opens

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki3

  57. 1950 to 1953
  58. Aug 1950

    Film preview in the front garden

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki1

  59. 1951
  60. 1951

    Kobe Municipal Art Museum

    The Kobe Nanban Screens by Kanō Naizen1

  61. 1951

    Enters Kobe municipal collection

    The Kobe Portrait of Saint Francis Xavier2

  62. 22 Apr 1951
  63. 1 May 1951
  64. 14 May 1951

    City funeral; buried at Sakamoto

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki1 · Nagai Takashi: The Doctor of Nyokodō13

  65. 12 Jul 1951
  66. 17 Oct 1951

    Nakamachi rededicated (16 or 17 Oct; Disputed,) Disputed

    Paul Yamaguchi Aijirō, bishop of the bomb years39

  67. 30 Jun 1952
  68. Oct 1952

    Xavier Memorial Church dedicated

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church2

  69. Dec 1952

    Nagasaki City Nagai Library opens

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki3

  70. 31 Mar 1953

    Re-designated National Treasure

    Ōura Cathedral24 · Ōura Church as First Built (1864‑1865)12

  71. 1954
  72. 1954

    Esumi's prayer for the Marian Year

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki1

  73. 1954

    Just under 90 percent of islanders in the old faith

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New1

  74. Jul 1954
  75. 1955

    Mayor Tagawa visits the US; St. Paul sister-city link

    The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19583

  76. 1955

    Akutagawa Prize

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence45

  77. 1955 to 1956
  78. 1956
  79. 6 Apr 1956
  80. 1958

    South wall section moved to hypocenter park

    The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19582

  81. Feb 1958

    Mayor's statement; council resolution for preservation

    The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19584

  82. 17 Feb 1958

    City council resolution for preservation

    Chapter V: After the Bomb10

  83. Mar 1958

    Ruins removed; building begins

    Paul Yamaguchi Aijirō, bishop of the bomb years36

  84. 14 Mar 1958
  85. 1959
  86. 1959
  87. 1959

    Nagasaki becomes an archdiocese

    Urakami Cathedral Rebuilt (1959, refaced 1980)6

  88. 1959 and 1967

    Medal with Yellow Ribbon; Order of the Sacred Treasure

    Tetsukawa Yosuke, Builder of the Island Churches1

  89. 1959 to 1960

    Cieslik's studies

    Petro Kasui Kibe17

  90. 14 May 1959
  91. 14 May 1959
  92. Oct 1959

    New cathedral completed; Nagasaki an archdiocese

    Chapter V: After the Bomb1018 · The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19584

  93. Oct 1959

    New concrete cathedral completed

    Urakami Cathedral Rebuilt (1959, refaced 1980)3

  94. 26 Oct 1959
  95. 1 Nov 1959
  96. 1 Nov 1959

    New Urakami Cathedral

    Nagasaki: the Christian city818

  97. 1960

    Tokyo historic place stone

    Fuda-no-tsuji: The Great Martyrdom of Edo1

  98. 1960 to 1962

    Tuberculosis; three operations

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence1

  99. 1961 to 1962

    Monument, museum and St Philip's church

    The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Nagasaki, 5 February 159737

  100. 1961
  101. 1961

    Cross with six names

    Unzen Jigoku3

  102. 1961

    End of Portuguese rule

    Goa: the road to Japan1

  103. 1962
  104. 1962
  105. 1962

    Museum and St Philip's church open

    Twenty-Six Martyrs Monument, Nishizaka12

  106. 1962
  107. 1962

    Martyrs' monument

    Nagasaki: the Christian city11

  108. 1962 to 1965
  109. 1 Jan 1962
  110. 1 Jan 1962

    Becomes the cathedral of the diocese

    Urakami Cathedral6

  111. 1963
  112. 1963

    Memorial society and memorial park at Kibe

    Petro Kasui Kibe710

  113. 11 Jan 1964
  114. Apr 1964

    Sees the fumie in Nagasaki

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence1

  115. 1965

    Municipal Museum of Namban Art

    The Kobe Nanban Screens by Kanō Naizen1

  116. 1965

    Centennial relief of the Discovery set up

    The Statue of Santa Maria at Ōura (Virgin of the Discovery)9

  117. 14 Mar 1965
  118. Apr 1965

    Research trip to Nagasaki, Shimabara, Hirado

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence1

  119. 24 September 1965

    Funakoshi Yasutake's statue unveiled at Kibe

    Petro Kasui Kibe11

  120. 1966

    Funamori villagers move away

    Nozaki Island village ruins6

  121. 1966
  122. Mar 1966
  123. 1967 onward

    Annual Kibe festival each autumn

    Petro Kasui Kibe24

  124. 1968, 1970

    Megumi no Oka homes

    The Junshin Sisters of Nagasaki2

  125. 1968

    Centenary monument

    Otome-tōge, Tsuwano3

  126. 19 Dec 1968
  127. 1969

    Renamed Nagai Memorial Hall

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki3

  128. Oct 1970

    Order of St Sylvester

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence1

  129. 1971

    Xavier statue raised; church renamed

    St Francis Xavier Memorial Church, Hirado35

  130. 1971

    Last Mass at Nokubi

    Nozaki Island village ruins1

  131. Sep 1971
  132. 17 Oct 1971
  133. 1972

    Latin Seminary Important Cultural Property

    The first Japanese priests of the modern era, 188213

  134. 23 Nov 1972

    Present cathedral blessed

    Kyoto (Miyako) and the Church11

  135. 9 Apr 1974

    Prefectural tangible cultural property

    Dozaki Church12

  136. 1975
  137. c. 1975

    Story publicized; head brought to Nagasaki; kept by Junshin

    The Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)13

  138. 5 Jul 1976
  139. Sep 1976
  140. 1977
  141. 1977

    Museum of Christian history opens

    Dozaki Church1

  142. 1977 to 1980

    First complete printed edition (Japanese, 12 vols)

    Luís Fróis SJ: The Man Who Wrote Japan for Europe2

  143. 25 May 1977
  144. 11 Jun 1977

    Important Cultural Property

    Fumi-e: The Christ Underfoot5

  145. 1978

    Landing memorial set up

    Xavier in Kagoshima5

  146. 23 Apr 1978

    Landing memorial unveiled

    Xavier Lands at Kagoshima, 15 August 154934

  147. 1979

    Takatsuki and Manila become sister cities

    Takatsuki: Justo Takayama Ukon's Christian Castle Town3

  148. 1980
  149. 1980

    Urakami Cathedral fitted with stained glass throughout

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches20

  150. 1980
  151. 30 Nov 1980
  152. 1981
  153. 1981

    Cause formally opened by the CBCJ

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 20086

  154. 1981

    Unzen Catholic Church founded

    Unzen Jigoku6

  155. 1981

    Pope John Paul II visits Nagasaki

    Urakami Cathedral Rebuilt (1959, refaced 1980)7

  156. 1981

    Cause of the 188 martyrs opened

    Petro Kasui Kibe1425

  157. 18 Feb 1981

    Beatification in Manila

    Manila and Japan114

  158. 23 Feb 1981
  159. 24 Feb 1981

    Emperor; Kōrakuen Mass

    Pope John Paul II in Japan, 198134

  160. 25 Feb 1981

    John Paul II ordains 15 priests at Urakami

    Chapter V: After the Bomb19 · Pope John Paul II in Japan, 1981368 · Urakami Cathedral8

  161. 25 to 26 Feb 1981
  162. 26 Feb 1981

    Martyrs' Mass at Matsuyama stadium; 75 baptised

    Chapter V: After the Bomb25

  163. 26 Feb 1981

    Martyrs' Mass; Nishizaka; Kolbe; Megumi no Oka; departure

    Pope John Paul II in Japan, 198131113141618

  164. 26 Feb 1981
  165. 31 May 1981
  166. 1982
  167. 1982
  168. 1982

    Kobe City Museum opens with the collection

    The Kobe Portrait of Saint Francis Xavier2

  169. 10 Oct 1982
  170. 1983, 1993

    Memorial hut at the yashiki site

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy1

  171. 1984

    Rōya no Sako memorial church built

    Hisaka Island villages4

  172. 1984

    Hongōchi Lourdes made a pilgrimage site

    St Maximilian Kolbe in Nagasaki (1930 to 1936)3

  173. 1985

    New Gorin church

    Hisaka Island villages3

  174. 1985

    Ojika restores the church

    Nozaki Island village ruins5

  175. 1985
  176. 1985

    Kayano's *Musume yo, koko ga Nagasaki desu*

    Nagai Makoto and Kayano, the children of Nyokodō4

  177. 1986

    World Heritage

    Goa: the road to Japan1

  178. 1986

    St Kolbe Memorial Museum opens

    St Maximilian Kolbe in Nagasaki (1930 to 1936)24

  179. 1987
  180. 1987

    Memorial chapel at Kibe

    Petro Kasui Kibe10

  181. 18 Oct 1987

    Thomas Nishi canonised; Sep 1988 monument at Yamada Church

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New2

  182. 18 Oct 1987

    Canonisation

    Manila and Japan14

  183. Nov 1987
  184. 10 Apr 1988
  185. 1989

    Prefectural cultural property

    Nozaki Island village ruins15

  186. 1989 / 1998

    New German and Italian windows at Tabira

    Light Through Many Hands: Stained Glass in Japan's Churches18

  187. 1990

    Bombed Mary returns to Urakami

    Mary in Japanese Catholic memory11

  188. Late 1990s

    Remains found during school rebuilding (JTA; Disputed) Disputed

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki2

  189. 1990

    Returned to Urakami Cathedral; Noguchi's letter to Fr Kawazoe

    The Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)13

  190. 1990
  191. 5 Sep 1991
  192. 1992
  193. 1992
  194. 1992

    Ōita prefectural opera on Kibe

    Petro Kasui Kibe10

  195. 1993
  196. 1993
  197. 1994
  198. 1994
  199. 1994
  200. 1994

    Genna martyrs' stone

    Kyoto (Miyako) and the Church9

  201. Aug 1994
  202. 1995

    Excavation at Shirahama finds Christian burials

    Kashiragashima Village and Church2

  203. 1995

    Damian's relics return to Japan

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church3

  204. 1995

    Memorial Room at Minamiyamate opens

    St Maximilian Kolbe in Nagasaki (1930 to 1936)2

  205. 15 Jun 1995

    Designated Important Cultural Property

    The Kobe Nanban Screens by Kanō Naizen2

  206. 1996

    Excavations begin

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita1

  207. 1996

    Crypt and museum opened

    Macao and the Church in Japan2

  208. 29 Sep 1996
  209. 1998

    Second church taken down

    Xavier in Kagoshima3

  210. 1998

    Kuroshima church becomes an Important Cultural Property

    Kuroshima Village and Church3

  211. 1998

    Hirayama Ikuo's book brings national attention

    The Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)3

  212. 29 Apr 1998

    Present church dedicated

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church2

  213. 1999

    Present Xavier Memorial Church; statues in Xavier Park

    Xavier Lands at Kagoshima, 15 August 154978

  214. 1999

    Former Gorin Church becomes an Important Cultural Property

    Hisaka Island villages35

  215. 1999

    Present cathedral; statues of Xavier, Yajirō and Bernardo

    Xavier in Kagoshima34

  216. 1999
  217. 2000
  218. 2000

    Year-long excavation begins (prefecture; Disputed) Disputed

    Santo Domingo Church Site, Nagasaki4

  219. 2000
  220. Apr 2000

    Nagasaki City Nagai Takashi Memorial Museum

    Nyokodō, Nagasaki3

  221. May 2000

    Literary Museum opens; Urakami memorial Mass

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence8

  222. 27 Jun 2000

    Important Cultural Property

    The Kobe Portrait of Saint Francis Xavier3

  223. 2001

    The shrine priest leaves the island

    Nozaki Island village ruins1

  224. 2001

    City plaque at the wall remnant

    The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19582

  225. 4 Apr 2001
  226. 13 Aug 2001

    Ōtomo residence site designated

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita2

  227. 15 Sep 2001

    Association to Make the Churches of Nagasaki World Heritage founded

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 20184

  228. 14 Nov 2001

    Kashiragashima church becomes an Important Cultural Property

    Kashiragashima Village and Church4

  229. 7 December 2004; 5 May 2006; 6 February 2007

    Historians, theologians and cardinals approve

    Petro Kasui Kibe14

  230. 2005
  231. 2005

    Altar drawing found, inscribed 21 June 1917

    Egami Village and Church, Naru Island4

  232. 2005
  233. 2 Mar 2005

    Site extended; renamed Ōtomo Sites

    Funai and the Ōtomo, Ōita2

  234. 16 Mar 2005

    Bastian yashiki site designated a Nagasaki City historic site

    Bastian: The Calendar and the Prophecy3

  235. 2006

    Mita Twin Building West completed

    Fuda-no-tsuji: The Great Martyrdom of Edo3

  236. 2007

    Tentative list (January or July: Disputed) Disputed

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 201846

  237. 2007

    Ōso church becomes a prefectural cultural property

    Kashiragashima Village and Church7

  238. 2007
  239. 1 Jun 2007

    Pope Benedict XVI approves the beatification

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 20087 · Petro Kasui Kibe26272829

  240. Aug 2007

    Damian monument set up

    Yamaguchi Xavier Memorial Church2

  241. 2008

    Egami church becomes an Important Cultural Property

    Egami Village and Church, Naru Island12 · Ōno Church and Ōno Village, Sotome3

  242. 2 Feb 2008
  243. 5 Jun 2008

    CBCJ approves the prayer for canonisation

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 20085

  244. 8 Sep 2008
  245. 20 Nov 2008

    Holy See liturgical office lists the rite

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 20089

  246. 23 Nov 2008

    Pope Benedict speaks of it at the Angelus

    The Beatification of the 188 Martyrs, Nagasaki, 20088

  247. 24 Nov 2008
  248. 24 Nov 2008
  249. 24 Nov 2008
  250. 24 Nov 2008

    Beatified with Petro Kibe and companions (nos. 27 to 78 on the list)

    The Great Martyrdom of Kyoto, Shōmen Riverbank156

  251. 24 Nov 2008
  252. 24 Nov 2008
  253. 2009

    Mancio Itō portrait identified in Milan

    Rome of the Japanese Embassies, 1585 and 16151

  254. 2009

    Takase's book revives the debate

    The Urakami Ruins, 1945‑19583

  255. 12 Mar 2009
  256. 2010

    Hirado island cultural landscape selected as Important Cultural Landscape

    Nakaenoshima, Hirado2

  257. Apr 2010
  258. 11 Apr 2010

    Oseijo-matsuri at Sakaime; visit from Kurosaki

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New10

  259. May 2010

    New York, NPT review conference

    The Bombed Mary of Urakami (Hibaku no Maria)3

  260. 2011

    Hisaka named an Important Cultural Landscape

    Hisaka Island villages9 · Nozaki Island village ruins5

  261. 2011

    Important Cultural Landscape (Sakitsu and Imatomi)

    Sakitsu Village, Amakusa24

  262. 2011

    Tablet for the 2008 beati

    Unzen Jigoku3

  263. 2012

    Historic Site

    Ōura Cathedral4

  264. 5 Feb 2012
  265. Jun 2012

    13 components chosen (12 in Nagasaki, 1 in Kumamoto); draft dossier to the Agency for Cultural Affairs

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 20186

  266. Jul 2012 and Sep 2013
  267. 2013

    UNESCO Memory of the World registration

    Rome of the Japanese Embassies, 1585 and 16155

  268. 28 Oct 2013

    Rome approves the feast of Our Lady of the Discovery of the Japanese Christians

    Our Lady of Japan: The Statue at Ōura's Gate (1867)8

  269. May 2014

    Nakazono's lecture note on the Gururiyōza

    Orasho: The Prayers that Were Never Written Down2

  270. Jul 2014

    Chosen as candidate; Sep 2014 provisional dossier to UNESCO

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 20186

  271. Jul 2014
  272. 3 Apr to 5 Aug 2014

    Excavation at Kohinata 1-chōme

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti4

  273. Jan 2015

    Formal nomination; Sep to Oct 2015 ICOMOS mission

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 20186

  274. 17 Mar 2015
  275. 2016

    Minor basilica

    Ōura Cathedral6

  276. 2016

    Scorsese's *Silence* opens with the Unzen torture

    Unzen Jigoku3

  277. Jan 2016

    ICOMOS interim report; Feb 2016 nomination withdrawn

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 201867

  278. 21 Jan 2016
  279. 29 Jan 2016
  280. Apr 2016

    Identification announced

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti5

  281. 4 Apr 2016

    Identification announced

    The Kirishitan Yashiki, Koishikawa12

  282. Sep 2016

    Renamed Hidden Christian Sites; Jan 2017 formal nomination; Sep 2017 ICOMOS mission

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 20186

  283. Nov 2016

    Scorsese film screened for Jesuits; meets Pope Francis

    Endō Shūsaku and *Silence12

  284. 8 Nov 2016

    Facial reconstruction unveiled

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti6

  285. 2017

    Fewer than 300 Ikitsuki believers

    Orasho: The Prayers that Were Never Written Down1

  286. 2017 to 2018
  287. 2017

    Fewer than 300 adherents

    Ikitsuki Island: Old Christians and New1

  288. 7 Feb 2017

    Beatification of Takayama Ukon in Osaka

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan47

  289. 7 Feb 2017
  290. 8 Feb 2017
  291. 9 Feb 2017

    Mass of thanksgiving for the beatification

    Kanazawa: Justo Takayama Ukon's Twenty-Six Years in Kaga5

  292. 2018
  293. Apr 2018

    Kasuga guidance house opens

    Kasuga Village and Mt Yasumandake, Hirado2

  294. 30 Jun 2018

    Inscription at Manama; Archbishop Takami's statement

    The Hidden Christian Sites and UNESCO, 2018124 · Nagasaki: the Christian city14

  295. 3 Jul 2018
  296. 22 Jul 2018
  297. 2019
  298. 7 Mar 2019

    Beatification inquiry opened

    Giovanni Battista Sidotti2

  299. 24 Nov 2019

    Pope Francis at the hypocenter, Nishizaka and the stadium

    Chapter V: After the Bomb2026 · Mary in Japanese Catholic memory12

  300. 24 Nov 2019
  301. 2020

    Nagaeri church dismantled; site kept

    Hisaka Island villages8

  302. 15 November 2020

    400th anniversary of his ordination

    Petro Kasui Kibe722

  303. 2021

    Naru Island World Heritage guidance centre opens

    Egami Village and Church, Naru Island1

  304. 1 July 2022

    Icon by Aleksandr Griaznov unveiled in Kibe Hall, Tokyo

    Petro Kasui Kibe3132

  305. 2023

    C-600 shown in TNM exhibition on the Virgin Mary and the hidden Christians

    Maria Kannon: Mary in the Guise of Kannon6

  306. 2024 to 2025

    Last Ikitsuki village groups dissolve

    Chapter V: After the Bomb22

  307. 2024

    412,958 Catholics in Japan (0.331%)

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan38

  308. Mar 2024 to 1 Jan 2025
  309. Dec 2024

    Feast renamed for him

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura1

  310. 9 Aug 2025
  311. 26 Oct 2025

    Relief unveiled at Nishizaka

    Blessed Sebastião Kimura1

  312. Nov 2025

    Kurosaki chōkata recites orashio at Karematsu Shrine

    Hidden Christians and Kakure Kirishitan: Keeping the Faith Without Priests7

  313. 3 Nov 2025
  314. 3 Nov 2025

    Kurosaki chōkata recites orashio at Karematsu Shrine

    Hand to Hand: How Christianity Survived in Japan44

  315. 3 Nov 2025
  316. 3 Nov 2025
  317. 24 Mar to 10 May 2026

    TNM thematic exhibition on the figures

    Maria Kannon: Our Lady in Porcelain2