2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Stady on the tomb of Hidden Christian in Japan
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20K01082
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 03050:Archaeology-related
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| Research Institution | Beppu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 考古学から読み解く / キリシタン史 / 潜伏キリシタンの墓制 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
An archaeological survey was conducted focusing on gravestones at Christian cemeteries from the Edo period. As a result, we were able to trace the process by which gravestones were transformed due to the prohibition of Christianity in the southern region of Oita Prefecture and the Amakusa region of Kumamoto Prefecture, and even though the cross motifs and baptismal names disappeared, until the Kanbun era, when they were transformed into square-shaped stones, and then in the Genroku era, they were transformed into Edo-style gravestones with Buddhist posthumous names engraved on them.
From research into graveyards and gravestones, it was possible to infer that the Christian faith had died out by the 1660s, around the time the system of Christian conversion and reformation was established in Bungo and Amakusa. This indicates that there was a different history to that of western Kyushu, where the hidden Christians continued to exist until the
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| Free Research Field |
日本考古学、キリシタン考古学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
世界的に知られている江戸時代の潜伏キリシタンの信仰や生活については、これまで明治時代以後のカクレキリシタン信仰を維持した人々の、文献資料を利用した研究や、民俗学・宗教学からのアプローチが中心で、現在まで残された同時代の石造物を利用した研究は、長崎浦上の潜伏キリシタン信徒の墓石をあつかった片岡弥吉の20世紀中ごろの研究が唯一のものであった。
今回浦上を含めて天草と豊後地方の潜伏キリシタンの墓石に残された墓制を広く調査することで布教期から潜伏期に至る潜伏キリシタンの墓制を考古学から復元して、その信仰の一定の側面を考古資料からアプロ―チできることを示した。
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