Post by Emperor AAdmin on Mar 14, 2022 21:36:10 GMT -5
In This Country, Being Christian is illegal, You Are Tortured And Killed Unless You Convert Religion
Fast Films
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor,
who is rumored to have committed apostasy and to propagate Catholicism.
comments:
Balian; Ibelin
3 days ago (edited)
For historical background, this persecution was caused by an incident called Shimabara Rebellion. A rebellion by Catholic samurais against the Shogun because of policies that supressed their belief. You can read it by your own.
Also, for that one comment about Chief Hautey. He was killed by Diego Velasquez force for rebelling, not because he don't want to convert. The priest asked him was a procedure. In fact, his speech was detailed by a Catholic friar named Bartolome de las casas who criticized the Spanish colonial rules harshly and beg for the Spanish monarchy to treat the native better. Bartolome documented the Spanish colonizer cruelty, even thou he was a Spanish friar.
Edit: By the way, for comments below who mentioned San Felipe incident. It was basically started because a Spanish navigator boasting nonsense things to Japanese ambassador:
"The pilot of the ship, Francisco de Olandia, while conversing with the Japanese customs officials, spoke of La Espanha de los Conquistadores and boasted that the King of Spain had captured many countries in the world. He told them that the King of Spain sent the missionaries first to instigate the people against their ruler. When the matter was reported to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he became enraged. The situation was exploited by Yakuin Zenso, his physician and close advisor. The shogun issued an order to arrest and execute all Christian missionaries in Japan. The Franciscans, including Bautista, Garcia and others were arrested on 8 December 1596 and were sentenced to death. There were three Jesuits also, including the native seminarian, Paul Miki."
The guy sucked for boasting things that didn't make sense. For example, missionaires only came after Conquistadors. Not vice versa. They willing to work with natives, but why bother converting first when they can look for factions or groups that hated the prime leader there. That's what happen in America conquest, they looked for tribes who hate the king or leader there. Missionaries only came after that.
"Nagamori then inquired about the relationship between Spain and Portugal, and was indignant when the pilot and the ensign of the ship both replied that the two empires shared one king (the Jesuits had long explained to the Japanese that the two countries were different and separate)."
Even thou both Portugal and Spain was under Iberia Union. It still sucks because the guy was boasting and doing misinformation at the same time. Portugal still has their own king. Basically this navigator being overproud and boasting nonsense.
If you read the movie review. Silence happened after the Shimabara rebellion.
Love
6 days ago (edited)
When Japan was unified, they created a Shogunate in Japan, the Military dictatorship that ruled for 250 years during what is now called the Edo period. The Shogunate wanted to have full power, so they reduced the Emperor of Japan to basically a puppet of the Shogun who had all the real power. Denouncing the Emperor’s authority in Japan. They also decided to do the same to foreign Religions, most notably Christianity, brought over by the Portuguese who arrived in the 1500’s. By 1600 when Japan Unified, they made practicing Christianity punishable by death as it was percieved as a threat to the Shoguns authority and of the rich land owners known as the daimyo, who had all the power in Japan, yet making up less than 5% of the population of Japan. This is why Christianity and even the Emperor were somewhat despised in Japan at the time as they were ultimately considered threats to power.