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New Christian Manga

Postby Retten » Sat Jul 05, 2003 1:40 pm

Well i was just sitting down reading last night when i had a awesome idea for a Christian manga what if we told the story of the early missionaries to Japan during the 1597 through the life of one of them from when they first reach Japan to their death as martyrs :sniffle: it would definitely be a very moving story and a informative tool on what happened during that time period in Japan and how they tried to show the Japanese people Christ and what they went through to do it.

here are some links on the history of missionaries
http://www.baobab.or.jp/~stranger/mypage/26martyr.htm
http://members.aol.com/DoJourney/Keikyo/index.html
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Postby Ashley » Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:15 pm

Hmm...interesting. Certainly worth considering.
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Postby Izumi San » Mon Jul 07, 2003 7:06 pm

Yeah, sounds neat ^^
I've been having these weird thoughts lately, like, is any of this for real, or not?
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Postby MasterDias » Mon Jul 07, 2003 7:33 pm

Sounds like it would make an interesting manga although missionary martyr stories are a bit on the depressing side.
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Postby Izumi San » Mon Jul 07, 2003 7:41 pm

Yeah, since they die n all at the end...maybe we could also do one about those guys who went into the Amazon w/ their wives & were killed, but their wives continued to witness too them even after their husbands deaths.
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Postby Technomancer » Mon Jul 07, 2003 8:09 pm

The thing is, the Church in Japan did survive underground. Without their priests or any bibles, much was lost, but the knowledge of who they were remained. When the Jesuits returned to Japan in the 19th century, they were given permission to build churches, principally for foreign visitors. However, they were astonished when the Japanese began returning, remebering their priests, and the sacraments and St. Mary.

Aside from the historical information available, I would urge anyone interested to read Endo's novels "Silence" and "The Samurai" for a fictional look at this period. As an additional aside one of the oldest and largest Christian communities in Japan was obliterated with the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki.
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Postby Rashiir » Mon Jul 07, 2003 8:26 pm

Sounds good. Need any help?
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