Title
Signboard
Year/Period
7th April 1868; credited as 1865 by auction house
Region
Japan
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 40.5 x 86.3 x 8.7 cm
Accession No.
2013-00901
Collection of
This wooden signboard, dated 1868, is written in ink with a proclamation banning Christianity. Christianity was banned in Japan between 1639 and 1873. When the Tokugawa government outlawed the religion, Japanese Christians was forced to conceal their faith in order to escape persecution. Public notices as such were putted up in different provinces around Japan serving as a sign of warning. This signboard was meant for Hyuga province in Kyushu where it was one of the main centres of Christian missions.
