This is the site of the residence of the Shoya (village headman), who was responsible for the administration of Kuroshima Island during the period of anti-Christian edicts. In the residence of the Shoya on Kuroshima Island, a religious census was conducted at New Year as an annual practice, in which residents were forced to trample on fumie (images of Christ or the Virgin Mary) to prove their contempt for the foreign religion. There is a record testifying that a person born in 1832 trod on a cross. No remains of the Shoya residence survive, but stone walls and water ways on the premises and paths created under the land-allotment system of the time can be seen in the same conditions as those during the time when Christianity was banned.
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