Kakure Kirishitan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 隠れキリシタン (Kakure Kirishitan, literally “hidden Christian”).

Noun

Kakure Kirishitan (plural Kakure Kirishitans)

  1. (historical) A member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period who went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.
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