Kakure Kirishitan

[6] The prayers were adapted to sound like Buddhist chant, yet retained many untranslated words from Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish.

The Bible and other parts of the liturgy were passed down orally, because printed works could be confiscated by authorities.

[1] Kakure Kirishitan were recognized by Bernard Petitjean, a Catholic priest, when Ōura Church was built in Nagasaki in 1865.

Although these Hanare Kirishitans had a strong tradition of secrecy, they agreed to be filmed for Whelan's documentary Otaiya.

[7] The Kakure Kirishitan still exist today, forming "what is arguably a separate faith, barely recognizable as the creed imported in the mid-1500s by Catholic missionaries".

The Virgin Mary disguised as Kannon , Kirishitan, 17th-century Japan . Salle des Martyrs, Paris Foreign Missions Society .
A Dehua porcelain " Guanyin bringing child" statue, interpreted to be "Maria Kannon" in connection with Christian worship. Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan.
The gion-mamori , the mon of the Gion Shrine , which depicts two crossing scrolls and a horn, was adopted by the Kakure Kirishitan as their Mon under the Tokugawa shogunate [ 4 ]