Curriculum Vitaes

Shunta Takeyama

(竹山瞬太)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in History(Mar, 2025, Sophia University)
Master of Literature(Mar, 2021, Kumamoto University)

Contact information: s-takeyama-3o3eagle.sophia.ac.jp
J-GLOBAL ID: 202101014268233959
researchmap Member ID: R000020149

External link: https://redb.cc.sophia.ac.jp/cvclients/researchers/sanctissosacramo33?frame_id=46

Research Interests

9

Research Areas

2

Major Research History

5

May, 2024 - Present

Temporary Employee, Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University
Apr, 2024 - Present

Temporary Employee, Museum and Public Outrearch Department, The Toyo Bunko
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2021

Assistant Technical Staff, Eisei Bunko Research Center, Kumamoto University

Education

3

Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Doctoral Program in History, Graduate School of Humanities, Sophia University
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021

Cultural Sciences Major, Master's Course of History Research, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences, Kumamoto University
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019

Department of History, Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University

Committee Memberships

1

Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Representative, Sapientia Society in Sophia University

Papers

10

Jesuit Missions and Christians in the Kinai Region during the Early Period of the Prohibition of Christianity: Focusing on the Martyrdom of a Prominent "Host" commemorated in the 1632 Annual Report of Japan

Shunta TAKEYAMA, Susumu AKUNE

Bulletin of Association for the Study of Kirishitan Culture, (166) 37-67, Nov 20, 2025 Peer-reviewedLead author
Rethinking of the Christian History in Japan in the Early Prohibition Period of Christianity: from a two-way perspective of Christians and Shogunate/Daimyo Authorities

Shunta Takeyama

1-664, Mar 31, 2025
The Jesuit Mission System and Christendom in Shimabara Domain: the Historic Multilayering that Seeded to the Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion

Shunta Takeyama

Kioi Ronsō: The Studies of the Graduate School in Sophia University, (10) 1-16, Jan 31, 2025 Peer-reviewed
A Kirishitan Rōnin Supporting Clandestine Mission: 'Caseiro dos Padres' Kagayama Sadayū Bento and Christian Vassals of Hosokawa domain

Shunta Takeyama

Journal of EISEI-BUNKO Studies, (7) 69-89, Mar 30, 2024 Peer-reviewed
The Course of the Feud in the Matsukura Family of Shimabara Domain: Despotism as a Cause of the Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion

Takeyama Shunta

Kioi Ronsō: The Studies of the Graduate School in Sophia University, 9(9) 31-45, Jan 31, 2024 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

2

Rethinking of the Christian History in Japan in the Early Prohibition Period of Christianity: from a two-way perspective of Christians and Shogunate/Daimyo Authorities. (Summary of Doctoral Dissertation)

Shunta TAKEYAMA

Sophia Historical Studies, (70) 193-196, Nov 20, 2025
The demise of the organised Jesuit Japan mission in Kan'ei 10: the movement of Shogunate authorities & Christandade relating to Clandestine mission and captivity of Missionaries

Shunta TAKEYAMA

Sophia Historical Studies, (66) 95-96, Nov 19, 2021

Major Books and Other Publications

4

キリシタン1622: 殉教・列聖・布教聖省 400年目の省察（キリシタン文化研究第30冊）

川村信三・清水有子(編), キリシタン文化研究会(監修), 竹山瞬太 (Role: Contributor, 「禁教期日本人司祭とキリシタン信徒たち ―殉教者木村セバスチャン神父の潜伏宣教―」（第1部「元和大殉教とキリシタン」第3章）)

教文館, Jan 30, 2024 (ISBN: 9784764261792)

Presentations

8

上智大学キリシタン文庫の収蔵資料と「秘宝」—ドミニコ会殉教司祭の書簡と外海キリシタン「磔刑像」を例に―（上智大学キリシタン文庫貴重資料展関連講演）

竹山瞬太

キリシタン文化研究会大会（2025年度大会）, Dec 7, 2025, キリシタン文化研究会
禁教初期キリシタン信徒集団の自律性と対宣教師関係 ―布教論争への姿勢および潜伏期に至る信仰環境を軸に―

竹山瞬太

キリシタン学研究会（第8回例会）, Nov 23, 2025, キリシタン学研究会
The Reality and Aftermath of the 1630 Philippine Expedition Plan: The End of Early Modern Japan-Philippine Exchanges Just Before the “National Isolation”

Shunta Takeyama

The 30th Annual Philippine Studies Forum in Japan (APSFJ), Jun 21, 2025, Philippine Studies
寛永前半期イエズス会畿内宣教の様相と潜伏キリシタン ―『1632年度日本年報』および有力「宿主」の殉教を手がかりに―

阿久根晋, 竹山瞬太

キリシタン文化研究会大会（2024年度大会）, Dec 8, 2024, キリシタン文化研究会

Attachment
近世初期大名家キリシタン家臣の信仰維持と「転び」の諸相 ―細川家家臣団とキリスト教界の交錯―

竹山瞬太

キリシタン学研究会（第4回例会）, Nov 18, 2023, キリシタン学研究会

Professional Memberships

4

Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Sapientia Society in Sophia University
キリシタン学研究会
The Historical Society of Sophia University
Association for the Study of Kirishitan Culture

Major Works

1

Official website 'Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University' (Planning the structure, selecting, researching, and collecting contents and images, creating all sentences such as About us, Use, and TREASURE)

Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University

Dec 1, 2025 - Present Web Service

Research Projects

2

Scholarship for Fostering Researchers in Doctoral Program for Academic Year 2023

Sophia University, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2024

Shunta Takeyama
Scholarship for Fostering Researchers in Doctoral Program for Academic Year 2022

Sophia University, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Shunta Takeyama

Academic Activities

2

Research cooperation of "Japanese commercial activities in the US Philippines and documents related to the Osaka Boeki Kaisha" (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B))

Others

(Resources and Historical Collections Office, The Library of Economics, University of Tokyo), Oct 9, 2024 - Dec 26, 2025
Planning, researching and selecting of exhibit materials, and making explanatory texts and exhibition catalogues etc. for the special exhibition 'Masterpieces from Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University'

Planning, Management, etc., Planning/Implementing academic research

Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University (Sophia School Corporation Catholic Jesuit Center), Dec 7, 2025 - Dec 8, 2025

Attachment

Social Activities

2

Contributing author and editor of Exhibition Catalogue (Regular Edition of Paperback) 'Rediscovery of Japan -Through Foreign Eyes-'

Edit, Others

Toyo Bunko (Contributing author of No. 5: Pilgrimage, Fernão Mendes Pinto, 6: Jesuit Letters from Japan, 19: The Capital of the Tycoon, 22: Letters of Lafcadio Hearn), Jan 21, 2026 - May 17, 2026
Editorial Cooperation of Exhibition Catalogue (Regular Edition of Paperback) 'The Great Adventure of Knowledge -Invaluable Masterpieces from Toyo Bunko-'

Edit, Others

Toyo Bunko, The Yomiuri Shimbun (Toyo Bunko Museum), Aug 31, 2024 - Dec 26, 2024

Media Coverage

2

First-Ever Kirishitan Bunko Library Exhibition Opens Its Masterpieces to the Public at Sophia University

Sophia School Corporation, Sophia University Official Website, Topics, News, Articles on Sophia University Official Website, Jan 7, 2026 Internet
キリスト新聞「【企画展】上智大学キリシタン文庫貴重資料展川村信三氏、竹山瞬太氏インタビュー 2025年12月2日」

キリスト新聞社, キリスト新聞, ウェブ版「KiriShin」ニュース「映画・音楽・文化」欄, Dec 2, 2025 Internet

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