'Fumie' plates displayed at Christian history exhibition in Nagasaki

"Fumie" plates with an image of Christ or the Virgin Mary used by the medieval Tokugawa shogunate to find followers of then banned Christianity are displayed at an exhibition of the history of Christianity in Japan at the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture in Nagasaki in the country's southwest on Feb. 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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