Kakure Kirishitan
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Japanese 隠れキリシタン (Kakure Kirishitan, literally “hidden Christian”).
Noun
editKakure Kirishitan (plural Kakure Kirishitans)
- (historical) A member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period who went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.