Steve McCarty 🇯🇵<p>We visited a hidden Christian village (隠れキリシタンの里) in the nearby mountains, where the faithful hid their Christianity from the Shōgunate. They lived in remote areas, such as our city halfway between Ōsaka and Kyōto. The chapel museum (first photo) preserves their Edo Period history. They arranged with a Buddhist temple to give it their support in return for hiding their religious symbols among those of Buddhism. </p><p>Coincidentally, my previous post was about a Shintō shrine with a rare 3-legged torii gate, which some sources attribute to hidden Christians viewing them as the Trinity. However, the torii allude to the three-legged crow Yatagarasu, which I found goes back to Chinese and Korean mythology.</p><p>We also visited the nearby reconstructed factory site (史跡新池ハニワ工場) that produced early 6th Century haniwa terracotta figures entombed as companions of Emperor Keitai in the huge Imashirozuka Kofun raised-mound tumulus.</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhism</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/religion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>religion</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>