I finish Liam Matthew Brockey’s magisterial & moving history of the Jesuit missions in Asia during the 17th century, The Vistor. Such an astonishing (&, in the case of Japan, brutal) narrative...
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Replying to @holland_tom
In the 1860's the Japanese still referred to Christianity as "The evil sect". This was more or less specific to Catholicism. When the country modernised after the Meiji restoration one of the few things left over from the Shogun's was the ban on Christianity.
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imagine youve all seen this but imma repost it anyway because boy its goodpic.twitter.com/LXzoaUMumG
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right? somehow in the middle of everything else there's that too
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