nenbutsu, a form of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism secretly practiced on the Japanese island of Kyushu, during a period of religious persecution from 1555 to the Meiji Restoration. Inquisition Mozarabs Marrano/Anusim/Converso – comparable group of hidden Jews in Spain and Portugal Nagasaki Prefecture References Further reading "Japan – Hidden Christians": Foreign Correspondent documentary . . . Orasho, "Website of Churches and Christian Historical and Cultural Heritage of Nagasaki", operated for the Nagasaki Prefecture. Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region, Nagasaki Prefectural World Heritage Division Includes a descendant of the Kakure Kirishitan reciting the Orasho. Catholicism in Japan Crypto-Christianity Edo period History of Christianity in Japan Passing (sociology)