Maria Kannon - Maria Kannon

During the Edo period, Christianity was banned and these Kannon statues were worshipped by Christians. They were beautiful white porcelain and celadon statues, and were confiscated by the shogunate. In the report on the "Urakami Village Peasants' Ceremony for Different Sects" by Nagasaki Magistrate Oka during the Urakami Third Uprising (1856, Ansei 3), it was written that "It is a white-fired Buddha called Hantamaruya," "The statue of the Kannon holding a child is the image of Lius, who was raised by his mother Hantamaruya when he was a child, and is a perfect statue of Kannon," and "The principal image of the different sect is called Hantamaruya, and it appears that she gave birth to a Buddha named Lius while wandering." Compared to the statue of Mary on Ikitsuki Island (northwest of Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture), which holds a child in its left hand, the Maria Kannon holds a child in its right hand.

[Nomura Nobuyoshi]

"The History of Urakami Christians" by Urakawa Wasaburo (1943, Zenkoku Shobo) " "Hidden Christians" by Kataoka Yakichi (1967, NHK Books) " "Christian Studies Volumes 1-19" (1957-1979, Christian Culture Research Institute)

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江戸時代のキリスト教禁制下でキリシタンに拝された観音像。美しい白磁や青磁の像で、幕府に没収された。浦上三番崩れ（1856＝安政3）のおりの岡部長崎奉行(ぶぎょう)の「浦上村百姓異宗の儀」の報告に「ハンタマルヤと申(もう)す白焼仏」「子を抱き候(そうろう)観音体の仏はリウス幼稚の砌其(みぎりその)母ハンタマルヤ養育いたし候姿、全く観音の像にて」「異宗の本尊はハンタマルヤと申、右流浪(るろう)中リウスと申仏を出産いたし候趣(おもむき)」などと記されている。生月(いきつき)島（長崎県平戸(ひらど)の西北方）のマリア像の左手に対し、マリア観音は右手に子を抱えている。

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『浦川和三郎著『浦上切支丹史』（1943・全国書房）』▽『片岡彌吉著『かくれキリシタン』（1967・NHKブックス）』▽『『キリシタン研究　第一集～第19集』（1957～79・キリシタン文化研究所）』

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