Otaiya: Japan's Hidden Christians /

In the sixteenth century Portuguese Catholic missionaries introduced Christianity to Japan. The religion flourished for about fifty years, but by 1614 the Tokugawa government issued an edict that outlawed Christianity and expelled the missionaries from Japan. About 150,000 believers went underground...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Whelan, Christal (Author, Producer, Narrator)
Corporate Author:	Kanopy (Firm)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Published:	[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Series:	Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 1
Subjects:	Portuguese. Japanese. Religious persecution. Missionaries. Religious rites and ceremonies. Christianity. Cultural change and history. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video