English Explanatory Dictionary

Kakure Kirishitan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period who went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.

Word forms

Kakure Kirishitan Kakure Kirishitans

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 隠れキリシタン (Kakure Kirishitan, literally “hidden Christian”).

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