The formulation of the antichristian discourse in Japan during the 16th-17th centuries

Few decades after the first Christian missionaries stepped into Japan, the Japanese leaders who promoted the unification of the archipelago and helped to build a new government throughout the second half of the 16thcentury issued antichristian edicts, first expelling the missionaries (1587) and then...

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Autor: Bernabé, Renata Cabral
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Faces da História
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.assis.unesp.br:article/1395
Acesso em linha:https://seer.assis.unesp.br/index.php/facesdahistoria/article/view/1395
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japão
edito anticristão
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antichristian edict
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Resumo:Few decades after the first Christian missionaries stepped into Japan, the Japanese leaders who promoted the unification of the archipelago and helped to build a new government throughout the second half of the 16thcentury issued antichristian edicts, first expelling the missionaries (1587) and then banning Christianity from Japan (1614). These edicts carry in their content the reasons why the leaders in Japan thought the missionaries were suspicious and decided to outlaw Christianity. This article analyses these edicts and proposes an analysis for the use of the concept shinkoku – which was translated by the Jesuit missionary Luis de Fróis as “land of Cami” – by this new government, stablished after the unification was completed by the end of the 16th century.