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2021
Churches and Mission Schools Originated in the Foreign Concession in Tsukiji,
Tokyo
(Photos were taken on the 5th and 7th November 201 by Nikon Z6 or Pentax K-3iii.)
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Map of Akashi-cho area (This map covers a wider area than that included in the X'mas card 2021. Drawn on CorelDRAW in November 2021, on the basis of Google map.）
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Left: A view of the spire of St. Luke's Hospital from a point near the Tsukiji Station. Middle: Seiruka Dori Street (St. Luke Street). Right: St. Luke's International Hospital appeared through the shed trees.
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Left: Front view of St. Luke's International Hospital. Right: The corridor of the hospital with sacred paintings and carvings on both side walls which appeared on entering the front entrance. The corridor is a part of St. Luke's Chapel included in the hospital building.
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Left: Monument of Dr. Rudolf Bolling Teusler in the premise of the hospital, the founder of St. Luke's Hospital. Right: The old residence of Dr. von Treusler, now the Memorial House.
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Left: Monuments of American Legation in the front yard of the hospital that commemorate that this site was once occupied by the legation. Right: Another Monument of American Legation at the south corner of St. Luke's Garden to prove that a part of the legation was also there.
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The entrance to St. Luke's Chapel on the Kyoryuchi Dori Street (Concession Street). Other part of the building has been included in the hospital building.In the distance is seen the S. Luke's Garden Tower.
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Left: The Tsukiji Catholic Church. Right: The front gGable in which the sign of St. Maria is arranged.
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From the left: St. Josef's statue at the entrance, the
interior of the Hall, the statues of St. Johanes and St. Maria.
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Left: A panel to show the history of the Church in the Display Room on the side of the hall. Middle: A large antique copper bell in the front garden, named "Jesus Marie Josef". Right: A panel describing that the bell was cast at Rennes, France, in 1876.
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Left: The entrance to the Society of St Columban, annexed the the Cathlic Church. Right: A St. Maria statue in the society's building.
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List of schools that originated in the Tssukiji Concession. All of themhad moved after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake to the northwest hills of the city. Photographs of some schools are shown belwo.
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From the left: Monuments of Gyosei Gakuin, Rikkyo Jogakuin and Josjigakuin.
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Left: Keio Gijuku, private class in the Yedo Residence of Nakatsu-Clan. Right: Monument of Dr. Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold, a VOC physician)
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Bird’s eye view of Akashi-cho area. Left: Present view from the 32F corridor between the two buildings of St. Luke’s Garden Tower (7 Nov. 2021 by Nikon Z6), Right: Past view in 1958 (duplicated from the Kyobashi Library Archive).1: St. Luke’s Hospital (Old bldg.), 2: St. Luke’s Hospital (New bldg.), 3: Tsukiji Catholic Church, 4: Akashi Elementary School, 5: Akatsuki Park, (5): Tsukiji River.
2020 Ryunoshuke Akutagawa’s Kirishitan Series Novels
(2): "The Smiles of Gods"
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Folding Screens with the Arrival of a Portuguese Ship.
Anonymous, ca. 1600 - 1625, Rijksmuseum. (1): AK-RAK-1968-1-A, (2):
AK-RAK-1968-1-B, (3): A part of (2), enlarged.
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1: The bell of Namban Temple, held at Myoshinji Temple,
Kyoto (Duplicated from: https://blog.goo.ne.jp/thomasonoda).
2: Namban Temple Monument at the North side,
Takoyakusi-dori Muromachi Nishi-Iri, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto (Duplicated from:
Wikipedia).
3: Sketch portrait of the Padre Organtino found in the
under-layer of the Evora folding screen (Duplicated from: Kiichi Matsuda,
“Discovery of Namban Materials – New Information about the Age of Nobunaga [in
Japanese]”, Chu-kou New Pocket Books, 1964).
4. "Seminario in Anzucci (Adzuchi) (Duplicated from: Marco Antonio Ciappi, “Compendio Delle Heroiche Et Gloriose Attioni Et Santa Vita di Papa Greg. XIII, 1596 – BooksGoogle)
Ama no Iwato Densetsu Nishiki-e (Legend of Ama no Iwato Woodcut), by The 3rd Toyokuni, 1856. Held at Faculty of Shinto Studies, Kokugakuin Univ. Duplicated from: https://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/article/130732
Myth of the dawn of Japan.
Ama no Iwato no Kigen (The origin of Ama-no-Iwato), by Shunsai Toshimasa 1887.Wikipedia.
Ama no Iwato, by Gyausui Kawanabe, colour on silk, 1880s(?). Duplicated from: https://ultrabigfight.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-58.html
Odysseus shooting the suitors
Duplicated from https://catherinecarby.com/schedule/2018/1/16/monteverdi-the-return-of-ulysses
"Yuriwaka Daijin" in Kuniyoshi Utagawa's "Kiso-kaidou 69 Stations, No.10: Fukaya. Held by the Bigelow Collection, Boston Art Museum.
(The reason why the legendary maritime hero, Yuriwaka, represented the inland town, Fukaya, is unknown.)
Duplicated from: https://catherinecarby.com/schedule/2018/1/16/monteverdi-the-return-of-ulysses Odysseus shooting the suitors
"The Torment of Saint Anthony", c.1487-88, Attributed to
Michelangelo
Duplicated from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torment_of_Saint_Anthony
"The Meeting of Saint Anthony and Saint Paul" (with the
centaur at the background), c. 1430-35 by Master of the Osservanza.
Duplicated from: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.436.html
2019 Ryunoshuke Akutagawa’s Kirishitan Series Novels
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Ryunoshuke Akutagawa
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(1) A portrait of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. From: https://bookvilogger.com/akutagawaryunosuke
(2) A Maria Kwannon and Bible of Akutagawa. Held by Museum of Modern Japanese Literature. http://blog.livedoor.jp/sawarabiblog/archives/2007-10-07.html
Santa Marina
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(1) A scene of fire in which Lorenzo appeared holding the baby from the blazing umbrella-maker's house. An illustration by Tadao Yoshimura, in: Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Houkyounin no shi/Jashumon (Death of a Disciple/Heresy), Obunsha Paperback 1967.
(2) Sancta Marina Virgo (Santa Marina Virgin), an 18th century copper plate gravure, water-coloured. Duplicated from: http://antiquesanastasia.com/religion/references/other_saints/marina/general_info.html;
(3) Saint Marina of Alexandria as a hermit. An engraving (139 × 90 mm) by Boëtius Adamsz Bolswert 1619, after Abraham Bloemaert. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-26.714
Paintings at Polistena Cathedral, Italy
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(1) Expulsion of Fra Marino from the Monastory, (2) Death of Santa Marina. Works by Carmelo Zimatore, early 20th C.
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(1) The expulsion from the monastery, (2)The death of Santa Marina. Old paintings by A. Pagano (1834) that adorned the wall of the presbytery.
http://www.santamarinapolistena.com/la-santa/culto
St Christophorus
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(1) and (2) Stained glasses of "Saint Christopher" and "St Anne & the Virgin Mary" at St Peter's London Docks Church. Photographed by M. Iguchi, April 2017. (3) St. Christopher, from the Westminster Psalter ca. 1250 (Wikipedia); (4) An earliest dated woodcut print of St. Christopher ca. 1423 from an ex libris in a Buxheim's manuscript (Germany), The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester (Wikipedia). The stained glass (2) has nothing to do with this article but added as it looked beautiful. The text in the scroll which St Anne shows to Virgin Mary is a part of Isaiah 11-1 "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: ..." (underlined part)
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(1) Saint Christopher, by Konrad Witz (c. 1435), Kunstmuseum, Basel (Wikipedia).
(2) Helvetia stamp 1969. https://myloview.de/fototapete-briefmarke-schweiz-1969-st-christophorus-basel-museum-nr-F23C0F
(3) Austrian stamp for 500 year anniversary of Diocese of Vienna, https://austria-forum.org/af/Wissenssammlungen/Briefmarken/1969/Di%C3%B6zese_Wien_-_Hl_Paulus
(4) Principality of Liechtenstein stamp 2004. https://www.stampmagazine.co.uk/forums/memberpostings.asp?c=112500&p=2
2018 Temple Churches in Bristol and London
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Temple Church, Bristol (4 April 2017 by Pentax K-3ii),
Left: Temple Church, Bristol, before destroyed by the Blitz in 1940 (Duplicated from an old postcardin the Internet), Right: Guide board (4 April 2017 by Pentax K-3ii).
Temple Church, London: Front view; East and west side views of the Chancel; Stained-glasses at the east and west side Chancel(7 April 2017 by Pentax K-3ii).
Temple Church, London: Sculpture of two knights on hourse back on top of the column in the front yard and a statue of Richard Martin, a famous barrister-at law, d. 1608 (7 April 2017 by Pentax K-3ii); Effigies of Gilbert Marshal, the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and an anonimous Bishop (duplicated from the official brochure).
A Dutch friend of mine wrote back to this Christmas
card that he had repeatedly read of the Temple complex in London in the Jane
Gardam's novel cycle, Old Filth,
The Man in the Wooden Hat and
Last Friends.
An English lady replied to me, " I lived in Bristol for seven years and know that church well, indeed I used to work in the Temple Circus building right behind it".
2017 The religious paintings of Vincent van Gogh
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Left: The potato eaters 1885 - Final version, Nuenen.
O/C 82 cm x 114 cm. Van Gogh Museum. (The first version is also held in this museum).
O/C 65.7-78.5 cm.Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
The bible was the belonging of his deceased father who was the pastor of the village. The small book was Vincent’s own copy of Emile Zola’s La Joie de Vivre.
Left: Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen. 1885.
O/C 41.5 x 32.2 cm, Van Gogh Museum.
Right: The same Church in April 2017.
Photo by M. Iguchi (Pentax K-3ii/DA 18-270 mm F3.5-6.3).
The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix). Early May 1890 at Saint-Rémy.
O/C: 73-60 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum.
Depiction of the parable in "Luke 10:33". The composition of the Delacroix's painting was left-right reversed.
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(1) Eugène Delacroix, 1849, O/C, 37 x 30 cm, private collection.
(2) Domenico Campagnola, c.1530s, Tempera on wood, Lowe Art Museum, University
of Miami.
(3) Jan Wijnants,, 1670. Oil on canvas, The State Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg, Russia.
(4) Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, 1850, Print.
The Raising of Lazarus (after Rembrandt). May 1890 at Saint-Rémy.
O/C 50-65 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
The secene of "John 11". The composition of the Rembrandt's painting was left-right reversed and the Jesus in it was not drawn.
The same secene was depicted by a number of artists, as five examples are shown below.
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(1) Rembrandt, late 1620s or 1630-32, Oil on panel. 96.36
x 81.28 cm.. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(2) Rembrandt, c.1632, Etching, Rijksmuseum.
(3) Michelangelo Caravaggio, c. 1609, O/C, 380 x 275 cm,
Museo Regionale, Messina.
(4) Juan de Flandes ca. 1465 –
1519, Oil on panel, (110 × 84 cm, Museum Museo del Prado, Madrid
(5) Geertgen tot Sint Jans 1460s, Oil and tempera on
panel , 172 × 97 cm, Museum Musée du Louvre, Paris.
(Related paintings and Michelangelo's sculpture)
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(1) Café Terrace at Night, 1888, O/C, 81.0 x 65.5 cm,
Kröller-Müller Museum.
(2) Country road in Provence by night, 1890, O/C, 81.0 x
65.5 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum.
(3) Pietà by van Gogh (after Delacroix), 1889, O/C, 42.0 x 34.0 cm,
Van Gogh Museum.
(4) Pietà by Eugène Delacroix, 1850, O/C, 35 × 27 cm, Vatican
Museums.
(5) Pietà by Michelangelo (1475-1564) in St. Peter's Basilica,
Vatican.
2016 The work of Luca Hasegawa, a Catholic
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Luca Hasegawa,
Ceiling of the Church of the Holy Japanese Martyrs,
Civitavecchia, Italy. (Fresco) 1954. On the sides of the Madonna in Kimono costume are represented Saint Francis Xavier, the first Jesuit who brought the Christianity into Japan in 1548 and San Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Order. On the sides of the apse are painted Santa Fermina, the patroness of Civitavecchia and Tsunenaga Rokuyemon Hasekura*, the first Japanese who visited the city in 1615. Image from: Luca Hasegawa;, Paintings and Essays of Luca Hasegawa, Kyuryudo, Tokyo 1989. [Japanese]
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Hosokawa Gracia (Japanese painting) 1949. The 10th Catholic Art
Exhibition. This piece is probably held by Pontifical Urbaniana University or some other institution of Vatican, according to a private letter from Mr. Takashi Kazamaki, Kawasaki City. Image from the same book as above.
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[Addendum] Lady Gratia, 1950s, by Luca Hasegawa. Painted for the Gratia Hospital, Osaka. Copied from a postcard presented by courtesy of the Hospital. |
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Fresco in the Sutokubyo, the Charnel of the Owari-Tokugawa
Family, 1938 The two bodhisattvas, Suryaprabha and Candraprabha (the Solar and Lunar bodhisattvas), painted on the left and right hand sides of the fresco and the stone statue of Amitabha Tathagata from Northern Wei China placed in the front form the Buddha triad. Angels are drawn in the middle of the painting to celebrate the stone Buddha. Image from the same book as above. |
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A portrait of
Yoshichika Tokugawa (Oil) 1936.
By
courtesy of the Owari-Tokugawa Family. Hunting was one of his
major hobbies. |
2015 The Great East Window of The Gloucester Cathedra
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The Great East Window of The Gloucester Cathedral, England (19/05/2014.). This windouw installed in 1350 AD was the largest one in the world, measuring 12 metre wide and 22 metre high. A recipient of this card told me that she was pleased to see my photographs because she visited the same cathedral in the same year in August but she was unfortunately unable to enter the inside as a Sunday service was held there. Another recipient replied and praised the close-up shot of the Window or my telescopic lens. |
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The central panel in
the third tier from the top in the window.
This
window depicted the characters in the Coronation of the Virgin,
with enthroned Mary and Jesus in the middle flanked by four
important apostles., St. Thomas and St. Peter on the left and
St. Paul and St. John on the right (19/05/2014.) |
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The front view of the
Gloucester Cathedral (19/05/2014.). This cathedral was originally founded in 678-9 AD as an Anglo-Saxon religious house by Price Osric of Mercia and reconstructed in 1072 in the Romanesque style by Serio, a Norman monk, by the order of William the Conqueror. |
Left: Statues of six saints above the intel of the entrance (South Porch) (19/05/2014.).
The figures, from the left to
the right, are St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Luke, St. John.
Middle and Right: Statues of King Osric and Abbot
Serio at the left and the right-hand side pillars of South Porch (Duplicated and
cut from Wikimedia).
2014 The Ascension (1822) by John Constable
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The Ascension (1822)
by John Constable (25/05/2014.).
The
best piece among three religious paintings painted by the
Romantic painter. This painting, which had a somewhat chequered
career from the very beginning, exists in the St. Mary’s Church,
Dedham, Essex, England, since 2001 AD. (25/05/2014.).
A friend of mine in England who read this story told me that his wife sang in the choir of Manningtree Church in her girlhood in 1950's when this painting was there. |
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The Mill Stream
(1814-15) John Constable, scenery of Dedham, Essex, England.
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The same scenery
painted 200 years ago by John Constable in his The Mill Stream (Photograph taken 25/05/2014). In Dedham, beautiful rural landscape and townscape with medieval houses are perfectly reserved. |
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2013 Wayang Wahyu (Revelation shadow play)
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A scene of Wayang
Wahyu (Revelation shadow play) of the Saint Paul Story held in
the Easter season in 2012 at Solo. (Image from: http://www.hidupkatolik.com/2012/04/18/solo-jawa-tengah-wayang-wahyu-paulus.) |
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A set of Wayang Wahyu
puppets owned by Pangudi Luhur Primary School, Suraka (Solo).
Photograph taken 14/02/2012). |
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Jesus puppet for
Wayang Wahyu (Photograph taken 14/02/2012). |
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2012 The Church & Temple of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Ganjuran, Yogyakarta
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The Javanese architectural style Hall of The Church & Temple of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Ganjuran, Bantul, Yogyakarta.(12/02/2012). This Church generally known as Greja Ganjuran was built in 1927 by the Schmutzer Family, a successful sugar planter. |
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The chapel of Greja Ganjuran, Bantul, Yogyakarta, designed after an ancient candi (Hindu/Buddhist temple), (12/02/2012).
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Christ as a Javanese Prince in Greja Ganjuran Chapel, Bantul, Yogyakarta, designed after an ancient candi (Hindu/Buddhist temple), (Wikipedia).
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2011 Jagatara - the destination of Haru
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De Kruiskerk
(Cross
Church), built in 1640. Haru who was deported to Batavia must
have prayed every Sunday and celebrated her wedding at this
church. (Image from: http://www.onderwijsbeeldbank.geheugenvannederland.nl/). |
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Pieter Cnoll and his Family, Jacob Coeman 1665. Held by
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Held by Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The lady in the picture, Cornelia van Nijenroode, daughter of a chief merchant in Hirado who was also a deportee from Nagasaki got married to Pieter Cnoll but lost him for a disease. Her second life witb Joan Bitter was an unhappy one and ended up miserably.. (Image from: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/). |
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2010 Lady Gracia, Mulier Fortis who gave her life to the Lord and her family
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Hosokawa Gracia by Kiyochika Kobayashi, Woodcut-Ukiyo-e (1885).
Instead of being a hostage of Mitsunaga Ishida, Lady Hosokawa
chose a way to die. She gave last orders to her two faithful
retainers. After her last prayer, Shosai Ogasawara stabbed her
to death with his naginata (long sword), while Iwami Kawakita
witnessed. The two men set fire to the house and committed
suicide to immolate themselves to their mistress. (Image from:
http://www.enpaku.waseda.ac.jp/db/enpakunishik/results-black.php). |
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Lady Gracia's last day, by Insho Domoto (1963) in St. Mary's
Catholic Cathedral, Osaka. Source: http://bittercup.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-417.html (Clearer than that adopted in the original card) |
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2009 The Keicho Embassy to Europe
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Tsunenaga Rokuyemon Hasekura in Prayer, painted in Madrid in
1610s. His lord, Masamune Date of Sendai Clan, appointed Tsunenaga to lead the so-called Keicho Embassy to Europe for negotiating direct trade with Spain. The journey started in1613 and took seven years both ways ended in vain, as the Shogunate government issued the edict to prohibit the visit of Spanish and Portuguese. (Image from: Pictorial Record of National Treasure: Material related to the Keicho Mission to Europe, Sendai City Museum 2003. Defects around the face manually fixed on Corel PaintShop). Although Lord Masamune Date was not christened, his wife Lady Mego is said to have been a Christian at least for a certain period. |
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San Juan Bautista, reconstructed at Ishinomaki, near Sendai.
Image from: http://www.museum.or.jp/action/report/12/. |
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Left: Tsunenaga Rokuyemon Hasekura in formal attire in Rome in 1615, by Claude Deruet. Held by Palazzo Borghese (Wikipedia).
Right: Hasekura conversing with the Franciscan Luis Sotelo, surrounded by other embassy members in Rome in 1615 by Agostino Tassi. Held by Quirinal Palace (Wikipedia).
2008 The Virgin of the Thumb
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Left: The Virgin of the Thumb, by Agnese Dolci ca.1700
(Held by Tokyo National Museum).
A belonging of Father Giovanni Battista Sidotti who smuggled himself in 1707 from Rome in an attempt to revive Christianity in Japan when the religion was forbidden in Japan. (Image from: http://www.kyuhaku.com/pr/exhibition/exhibition_pre14.html).
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Mater Dolorosa, by Carlo Dolci ca.1655 (Held by National Art Museum,
Tokyo).
The original picture imitated by Agnese
Dolchi (his daughter) for Father Sidotti.
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A portrait of Hakuseki Arai in his formal attire.
A genius scholer and advisor to the Shogun in the mid Yedo
Period, he was in charge of interrogating Giovanni Battista
Sidotti in Yedo. |
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2007 Child-rearing Kwannon at Kouyasan-Kinshouji Temple
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Child-rearing Kwannon at Kouyasan-Kinshouji Temple, Chichibu,
Saitama Prefecture. (30/11/2007). Dedicated in 1792 (the 4th year of Kwansi Era) by Yoshinoya Hanzayemon, a rich merchant in Yedo, who lost his child and wife. |
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Approach to the main temple of Kouyasan-Kinshouji Temple,
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture. (30/11/2007). |
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Child-rearing Kwannon
statue (replica) in Hakkosan-Koushouji Temple, Tachikawa Town,
Yamagata Prefecture. (16/02/2004). |
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2006 Kirishitan Garden Lantern
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Kirishitan Garden Lantern in a private mansion in Higashiyamato,
Tokyo. (03/12/2006).
The figure engraved on the stem looks like a woman holding a
baby. It was brought from Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. |
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2005 Maria Kwannon of Ryusenji, Higasine
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Maria Kwannon, Ryusenji, Higasine, Yanagata Prefecture
(23.01.2004). In a winter day in the early 17th century, a traveller asked the temple to keep this statue for a while but never returned. This statue is supposed to be an imported one or have been worked designing after a picture of the Virgin and Child. |
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Ryusenji, Higasine, Yamagata Prefecture (23.01.2004). |
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Maria Kwannon, Sosenji, Kasukawa-Denzaboro, Oosato Town, Miyagi Prefecture (01/04/2004). This temple has suffered serious damage by the flooding of nearby Yoshida River, caused by the Typhoon 19 (Hagibis) which passed this area in 12th/13th October 2019, and the Maria Kwannon has been washed away and missing. Nam Amida! Amen! The 13th December, it was reported that the lost Maria Kwannon was discovered in Kasukawa-Sanjicho Village, ten-odd kilometer downstream of the river, among driftwood and returned to the temple. Amen!
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2004 Martyrdom at Hokusanpara, Yonezawa
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Martyrdom at Hokusanpara, Yonezawa, Yamagataq Prefecture
(11/01/2004).
Louis Yemon Amagasu, a retainer of the Uesugi Clan, who did not
want to abandon the Christianity and family members and
followers, 57 persons, martyred in 1629. |
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