Urakami collapse - Urakami collapse

Japanese: 浦上崩れ - うらかみくずれ

The incidents of arresting hidden Christians occurred in Urakami, Hizen Province (present-day Nagasaki City). There were four incidents, from the First Incident in 1790 to the Fourth Incident in 1867. In the three incidents from the First Incident to the Third Incident (1856), the shogunate and Nagasaki Magistrate's Office, fearing the incidents would escalate, tended to handle the incidents peacefully, treating the believers as "other sects" rather than as Christians, as in the Amakusa Incident. However, in the Fourth Incident, the believers had already confessed their faith at Oura Cathedral in 1865, so they were treated as Christians and persecuted, which led to a diplomatic issue after protests from foreign envoys. The new Meiji government also initially maintained its policy of banning Christianity, exiling the entire Urakami village, but in 1873 the ban on Christianity was lifted and the Urakami believers were released. → Petitjean

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Japanese:

肥前国浦上（現長崎市）で起こった潜伏キリシタン検挙事件。1790年の一番崩れから1867年の四番崩れまでの４回ある。一番崩れから三番崩れ（1856年）までの３回は事件の拡大などを恐れた幕府・長崎奉行所が，天草崩れと同様に信徒をキリシタンではなく〈異宗〉として扱うなど，穏便に処理する傾向があった。しかし四番崩れでは，すでに信徒が1865年に大浦天主堂で信仰告白をしており，キリシタンとして扱い弾圧，外国公使らの抗議で外交問題に発展。明治新政府も当初はキリシタン禁制政策を保持，浦上一村総流罪に処したが，1873年キリスト禁教を解き，浦上信徒は釈放。→プティジャン

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