Asama's Cross

This is a story about how underground Christians tried to survive under the harsh Tokugawa rule that had banned their faith for more than 150 years on pain of death. It is also the story of one of Japan's most catastrophic volcano eruptions, Asama's eruption of 1783.

Details

Publication Date: Mar 1, 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9781435769960
Category: Fiction
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Stephen Fleenor

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Format: EPUB

Keywords

Hidden Christians Japan Kakure Kirishitan Eruption of Asama Samurai and meshimorionna kind of geisha

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About Stephen Fleenor

Stephen Fleenor holds a MA in Asian Studies from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Theology from Northwest Christian University. He taught at the University of Utsunomiya and co-authored a best-selling textbook in Japan for high school students by Kaitakusha. Born in Eugene, Oregon Fleenor went with his missionary parents to post-war Japan at the age of three in 1950. He grew up in a Japanese environment favoring Japanese language, but later attended the Christian Academy in Tokyo and graduated from the American School in Japan. Fleenor served as a missionary between 1971-1997 mainly as a pastor of a Japanese church near Tokyo and a director of a camp near Karuizawa. Fleenor's goal was to pursue writing and began in earnest after 2003 and has written four novels. Two are published and the third will come out in October, 2011. Fleenor also assisted his 90 year-old father to publish his two books also offered by Lulu.

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