Scroll (document: 302 x 423 mm.; scroll: 1120 x 540 mm.), fine silk-brocade boards, wooden core roller. Dewa Province: early Edo, copied after 1674.

“The principal decisions against Christianity were made in the years around 1614-1615…They had their origins in a number of political, economic, and administrative considerations. Uppermost among these was the bakufu’s need to know that samurai, and especially daimyo, believers would have no higher loyalty than the one they bore their Tokugawa overlord…An edict of 1614 again order[ed] all Christian missionaries out of the country. This marked the start of a general persecution. Now too began measures... More