Hidden Christians & Oral History | Japan Past & Present

General

Abrams, Lynn. Oral History Theory (2nd ed.). London: Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315640761.

Caruth, Cathy Caruth. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore and London: JHU Press, 1995.

Delakorda Kawashima, Tinka. "The Authenticity of the Hidden Christians’ Villages in Nagasaki: Issues in Evaluation of Cultural Landscapes" Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4387 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084387.

Diehl, Chad R., ed. Shadows of Nagasaki: Trauma, Religion and Memory after the Atomic Bombing. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023.

Ehalt, Rômulo. "Geninka and Slavery: Jesuit Casuistry and Tokugawa Legislation on Japanese Bondage (1590s–1620s)." Itinerario 47, no. 3 (2023): 342–56. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115323000256.

Filus, Dorothea. "Secrecy and Kakure Kirishitan," Bulletin of Portuguese-Japanese Studies, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, no. 7 (December 2003): 93–113.

Gonoi, Takashi, ed. 五野井隆史監修ほか. Hidden Kirishitan of Japan Illustrated 潜伏キリシタン図譜. Hidden Kirishitan of Japan Illustrated Project Committee 潜伏キリシタン図譜プロジェクト実行委員会, 2021.

Good, Francis. “Voice, Ear and Text: Words, Meaning and Transcription.” In The Oral History Reader, 2nd ed, edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, 363-373. Routledge, 2006.

Gotō Masaki 後藤真樹. Kakure Kirishitan: Nagasaki, Gotou, Hirado, Amakusa wo meguru tabi. かくれキリシタン―長崎・五島・平戸・天草をめぐる旅―. 2nd ed. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2019.

Gotō, Youko 後藤暢子. Goto Rettou: Ritou wo tanoshimu 五島列島　離島を楽しむ. Tokyo: Tatsumi Shuppan, 2022.

Honma, Sadao 本馬貞夫. Sekai isan kirishitan no sato: Nagasaki, Amakusa no shinkoshi wo tazuneru 世界遺産キリシタンの里　長崎・天草の信仰史をたずねる. Fukuoka: Kyushu Daigaku Shuppan Kai, 2021.

Kataoka, Yakichi 片岡弥吉. Kakure Kirishitan: Rekishi to Minzoku かくれキリシタン : 歴史と民俗. NHK Bukkusu 56. Tōkyō: Nihon Hōsō Shuppan Kyōkai, 1967.

McClelland, Gwyn. Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki : Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives London: Routledge, 2020.

———. "From Pure Land to Hell: Introducing Four Culturally Hybrid UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Gotō Archipelago." Shima 16, no. 1 (April 21, 2022): 265–84. https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.130.

McHugh, Siobhán, ‘The Affective Power of Sound: Oral History on Radio’ The Oral history review 39, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2012): 187–206.

Miyamoto, Yuki. Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.

Miyazaki, Kentarō 宮崎賢太郎. Kakure Kirishitan Orasho: tamashii no tsusou teion　カクレキリシタンオラショ−魂の通奏低音. Nagasaki: Nagasaki shinbunsha, 2001.

Munsi, Roger Vanzila. "La foi des ancêtres. Chrétiens cachés et catholiques dans la société villageoise japonaise XVIIe–XIXe siècles , by Martin Nogueira Ramos." Journal of Religion in Japan 11, 3 (2022): 269-276, doi: https://doi-org.ezproxy.une.edu.au/10.1163/22118349-tat00005

Nakajima, Kō, ed. 中島功. (1973). Gotō hennenshi 五島編年史. Tōkyō : Kokusho Kankōkai, 1973

Ozaki, Tōmei 小崎登明. Nagasaki no Korube Shinpu: Seibo no kishi monogatari 長崎のコルベ神父: 聖母の騎士物語. Tōkyō: Seibo no Kishisha, 1983.

———. Jūnanasai no natsu 十七歳の夏. Nagasaki: Seibo no kisha-sha, 1996.

Perks, Robert, and Alistair Thomson, eds. The Oral History Reader (3rd ed.). London: Routledge, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315671833

Portelli, Alessandro. "What Makes Oral History Different." In Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans. Italian and Italian American Studies, edited by Luisa Del Giudice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101395_2

Ramos, Martin Nogueira. La foi des ancêtres: Chrétiens cachés et catholiques dans la société villageoise japonaise XVIIe-XIXe siècles. [The Faith of the Ancestors: Hidden Christians and Catholics in Japanese Village Society, 1700–1900]. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2019.

Shopes, Linda. “Editing Oral History for Publication.” In The Oral History Reader, 3rd ed., edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson 490–509. Routledge, 2016.

Sukeno, Kentarō, and Norio Yamada, eds. Kirishitan hakugai to junkyō no kiroku〈joukan〉キリシタン迫害と殉教の記録中巻Tōkyō: Free Press, 2010.

Tagita, Kōya 田北耕也. Showa jidai no sempuku kirishitan 昭和時代の潜伏キリシタン. 1st ed. Tokyo: Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai, 1958.

Takayama, Fumihiko 高山文彦. Ikinuke Sono Hi No Tame Ni : Nagasaki No Hisabetsu Buraku to Kirishitan 生き抜け、その日のために : 長崎の被差別部落とキリシタン. Osaka: Kaihō Shuppansha, 2016.

Thanh, Hélène Vu, "À la frontière de l’Europe et de l’Asie ? Le cas de Nagasaki aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles," e-Spania (15 June 2018), https://doi.org/10.4000/e-spania.28109

Treat, John. Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Turnbull, Stephen R.. Japan’s Hidden Christians, 1549-1999. 2 vols. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library and Edition Synapse, 2000.

———. The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library, 1998.

Udagawa, Aya 宇田川彩. "Kazoku no kioku shūdan no ākaibu Buenosuairesu no yudayahito to `posutomemorī' ni tsuite no kōsatsu 家族の記憶・集団のアーカイブ：ブエノスアイレスのユダヤ人と「ポストメモリー」についての考察." Nipponbunka jinrui gakkai dai 51-kai kenkyū taikai日本文化人類学会第51回研究大会 (2017), https://doi.org/10.14890/jasca.2017.0_H20

Ueno, Chizuko 上野千鶴子. Nationalism and gender. Translated by Beverley Yamamoto. Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press, 2003.

———. Nationalism and gender ナショナリズムとジェンダー. Tokyo: 青土社, 1998.

Urakawa, Wasaburō 浦川和三郎. (1928). Kirishitan no Fukkatsu, 2 vols. キリシタンの復活. Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai 国書刊行会, 1979 (first published in 1928).

———. Gotō Kirishitan Shi 五島キリシタン史 . Tōkyō: Kokusho Kankōkai, 1973.

———. Urakami Kirishitan Shi 浦上切支丹史. Tōkyō: Kokusho Kankōkai, 1973.

Whelan, Christal. "Japan’s Vanishing Minority: The ‘Kakure Kirishitan’ of the Goto Islands." Japan Quarterly 41, no. 4 (October 1, 1994): 434–49.

———. "Religion Concealed. The Kakure Kirishitan on Narushima." Monumenta Nipponica 47, no. 3 (1992): 369–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/2385104.

———. "Written and Unwritten Texts of the Kakure Kirishitan." In Japan and Christianity, edited by John Breen and Mark Williams, 122–37. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24360-0_9.

———. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth: The Sacred Book of Japan’s Hidden Christians. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

Williams, Frederick Vincent. The Martyrs of Nagasaki. Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1956.

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