E-fumi
- Date of creation
- 1800-1829
- Place of creation
- Description
- The ‘e-fumi’ ceremony can be described as ‘trampling the cross’: a person was forced to trample an e-fumi (literally: stepping on picture), an object depicting, for instance, Christ or Mary. For the Japanese authorities it was a way of identifying Christians: they reasoned that Christians would not want to trample the picture of a holy person. The Japanese did everything in their power to keep Christianity out of their country and the Dutch on Deshima had to take part in this ceremony once a year in order to prove their ‘innocence’. Though the Dutch were mainly Protestants in this case they considered business interests to be more important than religious convictions.
- Object type
- easel paintings (paintings by form)
- Collection
- The Netherlands – Japan
- Institution
- Source
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- 360-4302 (painting), Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde
- Copyright
- for information contact: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde
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