Prohibition of Christianity

Japanese: キリシタン禁令 - きりしたんきんれい
Prohibition of Christianity

…Oda Nobunaga was the first ruler to recognize the existence of a new world and culture other than China, India, and Japan through the missionaries. The Toyotomi government initially seemed to have inherited the same attitude, but in June 1587, after subjugating Kyushu, it issued a five-article ban on Christianity (Banten Expulsion Order), criticizing the missionaries for converting the people of the provinces and counties to Christianity and destroying shrines and temples, forbidding their propagation as a "wicked law," and ordering the expulsion of the missionaries. However, this ban allowed trade and travel between the "Christian provinces" freely as long as they did not interfere with the gods and Buddhas. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Ban on Christianity" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…織田信長は宣教師たちによって唐,天竺,本朝以外の新しい世界と文化の存在を認識した最初の為政者であった。豊臣政権も当初同じ態度を継承していたかにみえたが,1587年6月九州平定後5ヵ条からなるキリシタン禁令(伴天連追放令)を発し,宣教師が国郡の人民を信徒にして神社仏閣の破壊行為に出たことを非難し,〈邪法〉としてその布教を禁じ,宣教師の追放を令した。しかし,この禁令では神仏を妨げないかぎり,貿易と〈きりしたん国〉との往来は自由とされていた。…

※「キリシタン禁令」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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