jeanleonino

jeanleonino OP t1_j57sq5k wrote

Reply to comment by ShalmaneserIII in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino

And... Christianity wasn't being brought in just for the religion sake. It was a way to open up the country for possible colonizers. Maybe there wouldn't be a Japan, but a British or Portuguese colony that would lose all its cultural roots.

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jeanleonino OP t1_j576ihl wrote

Reply to comment by Lurker_IV in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino

Holy fuck, this is awesome. No, I didn't know. This interview also corroborates one feeling I had from this TIL: maybe some religious mix together when people try to hide their religion. The syncretism there is so obvious, imagine an Amaterasu Virgin Mary haha

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jeanleonino OP t1_j566pc9 wrote

Reply to comment by BaldBeardedOne in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino

Depends. It's more generally accepted there's South and North America.

But here in Latin America you may also learn - depending where you are - that there's also Central America (between Mexico and South America).

If you look at tectonic plates, there's a Caribbean plate that covers most of Central America as well. But given its size most places will say there's only Central and South America. Even Enciclopedia Britannica

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jeanleonino OP t1_j54s183 wrote

Reply to comment by cikanman in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino

Well, yes. In different time and regions for different reasons.

At the same time, most Portuguese and Spanish remained catholic, and that's no small portion of the world. Almost all of the American continent and Southeast Asia

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jeanleonino OP t1_j54pufm wrote

Reply to comment by TigBiddiesMacDaddy in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino

I am a history nerd... And I knew that part. But I never heard about the little statues and the hidden rooms they had in their own homes.

It's not that weird in history to treat other religions like this, but it's so curious how they valued* the clocks made by the jesuits, despite hating them. lol

edit: changed worshipped to valued, it was a luxury item in the Edo period, not a religious item.

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