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Suppression of Christian Remnants After the Shimabara Rebellion

Type Event Region Japan Time 1661–1670

After the Shimabara Rebellion was quelled in 1637–1638, the shogunate and the Nagasaki magistrate continued in the 1660s to hunt hidden Christians (k…

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  1. 1665Shimabara Peninsula · NagasakiAfter the rebellion, the shogunate pursued the ban on Christianity and measures against unrest as one policy; in the 1660s it maintained a hardline posture in the former Amakusa–Shimabara area, dispossessing the Matsukura clan and strengthening deputy supervision to prevent renewed gatherings of heretics and peasant uprisings.
  2. 1665Nagasaki · NagasakiThe Nagasaki magistrate's office was responsible for foreign affairs and enforcement of the ban on Christianity; in the 1660s it continued to employ fumie examinations and encouraged denunciations. Hidden churches in rural areas preserved their faith under the guise of folk worship, locked in a long standoff with official investigations.

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