🔗 Kakure Kirishitan

🔗 Catholicism 🔗 Japan 🔗 Japan/Religion 🔗 Secret Societies

Kakure kirishitan (Japanese: 隠れキリシタン, lit. 'hidden Christians') is a modern term for a member of the Catholic Church in Japan that went underground at the start of the Edo period in the early 17th century due to Christianity's repression by the Tokugawa shogunate.