Vertical scroll, with a manuscript document mounted & inlaid on modern fine paper, entitled “Ko Kirishitan” 古切支丹 “Classic Christians”

by Christian Persecution

$3,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll document: 302 x 423 mm.; scroll: 1120 x 540 mm. , fine silk-brocade boards, wooden core roller. Dewa Province: early Edo, copied after 1674. “The principal decisions against Christianity were made in the years around 1614-1615…They had their origins in a number of political, economic, and administrative considerations. Uppermost among these was the bakufu’s need to know that samurai, and especially daimyo, believers would have no higher

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