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TYPE: Manuscript
DIMENSIONS: 7 1/2 X 10 1/2 inches (closed)
COMPONENTS: 4 volumes bound as one; 55 pages
CONDITION: Very rare
NOTES: Haven't seen the call for the closing of a church in Nagasaki before. Nagasaki had a certain tolerance for Christianity so this must have been a severe repression.
ITEM ID: 1700
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Anti-Christian Manuscript on Closing a Church

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DATE
Year: 1868
Decade: 1860s
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
Notes: Keio 4

Manuscript set against Christianity specifically calling for the closing of a church in Nagasaki. Dated 1868, an important year in the persecution of Christians and the newly forming Meiji governments attempt to put and end to the influence of Christianity.