Description
浦上三番崩れと呼ばれる隠れキリシタンが大量に処罰された事件の際に、キリシタンから没収したものである。捕らえられ取調べを受けた浦上村の里郷字浜口に住む龍平の口述に出てくる「十文字の鉄エ人の形鋳付候品」がこの十字架らしい。龍平は牢中で病死した。
Data source
ColBase
"ColBase: Integrated Collections Database of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan" is a service that enables a multi-database search of the collections in the four national museums (To...
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National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (NICH) comprise four National Museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and Kyushu National Museum) and two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), as well as the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) in Sakai City, for a total of seven institutions.
Last updated
July 27, 2026