Shunta Takeyama

(竹山瞬太)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities Department of History, Sophia University
Temporary Employee, Museum and Public Outrearch Department, The Toyo Bunko

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
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6747-5826
J-GLOBAL ID: 202101014268233959
researchmap Member ID: R000020149

External link: https://redb.cc.sophia.ac.jp/cvclients/researchers/sanctissosacramo33?frame_id=53

◎ 天草市合併20周年記念・雲仙天草国立公園天草指定70周年記念・天草キリシタン館開館60周年記念の天草キリシタン館企画展「絵図で読み解く“島原・天草一揆”」（於・天草市立天草キリシタン館。会期：2026年8月1日～11月9日）開催に伴う「キリシタン資料館セミナー」（於・天草市複合施設ここらす。開催日：2026年10月11日 (日) ）で、以下題目のお話をします。

「島原藩松倉家の御家騒動と『野村家文書』―《天草一揆吉利支丹張本人甚兵衛四郎図》の紹介をかねて―」

（お申込み・お問い合わせ先：天草キリシタン館　Tel: 0969-22-3845　E-mail：kirisitan@city.amakusa.lg.jp ）

※お申込み受付開始：2026年9月2日 (水)

Research Interests

Research Areas

Major Research History

Apr, 2026 - Present

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities Department of History, Sophia University
Apr, 2024 - Present

Temporary Employee, Museum and Public Outrearch Department, The Toyo Bunko
May, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Temporary Employee, Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2021

Assistant Technical Staff, Eisei Bunko Research Center, Kumamoto University

Education

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

May, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Office Clerk, Association for the Study of Kirishitan Culture
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Representative, Sapientia Society in Sophia University
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Chief editor of the departmental bulletin 'Kioi Ronsō', Sapientia Society in Sophia University

Papers

The Crucifix of the Last Kirishitan Martyr in Sotome: History of the Kirishitan Leader in Kurosaki, Bastian Tsujimura Sanjirō, and his Corpus Christi Sculpture

Shunta Takeyama

Bulletin of Association for the Study of Kirishitan Culture, (167) 1-22, May 20, 2026 Peer-reviewed
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

Doctoral Dissertation of Doctoral Program in History, Graduate School of Humanities in Sophia University, 1-664, Mar 31, 2025 Peer-reviewed
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

Major Misc.

Newspaper Article: Jesuit Mission based in Kyoto? Research Symposium held at Tenri University

The Asahi Shimbun (Nara Edition), 15-15, Jun 29, 2026

*Newpaper Article of the Symposium '京都キリシタン世界の伸長と周縁地域の隆替: 天理図書館所蔵キリシタン版「こんてむつすむん地」原蔵家周辺を足がかりに' *The Photo of the Research Presentation shows Takeyama giving his Symposium Lecture (Courtesy of The Asahi Shimbun Company).

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Newspaper Article: Latest Researches on Kirishitan Culture Presented on the Symposium held at Tenri Central Library (Exploring History, Linguistics, and Art History; Exhibition of Rare Books, Including National Important Cultural Properties)

The Nara Shimbun, May 31, 2026

*The Photo of the Research Presentation shows Takeyama giving his Symposium Lecture (Courtesy of The Nara Shimbun Company).

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Book Review of Takashi Gonoi (2026) 'キリシタンの生きた〈まち〉宣教と弾圧の軌跡' Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan Inc.

Shunta Takeyama

The Shukan Dokushojin (Weekly Published in 15 May, 2026), (3637) 3-3, May 15, 2026 Invited

Major Books and Other Publications

Special Exhibition Catalogue of '絵図で読み解く”島原・天草一揆”' at Amakusa Christian Museum

Amakusa Christian Museum (ed.), Shunta Takeyama (Role: Contributor, No.15, 'Portrait of Jinbē and Shirō, the Kirishitan Ringleader of the Amakusa Rebellion': 描かれた天草四郎《天草一揆吉利支丹張本人甚兵衛四郎図》. (Chapter 2: 島原・天草一揆と関連資料))

Amakusa Christian Museum, Jul 31, 2026
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

A Reappraisal of Pagès’s ‘History of Christianity in Japan’ in the History of Kirishitan Studies: Along with an Introduction to the Copy Held in the Cordier Collection

Shunta Takeyama

The Morrison Collection in the International Context: Focusing on Missionary Documents (Morrison Research International Workshop), Aug 10, 2026, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (B): モリソンコレクション形成過程の総合的分析による東アジアをめぐる知的体系の解明 (Principal Investigator: Keiko Hakoda) (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Invited
Acceptance of Jesuit Mission Press and Prosperity of Cult of Saints among Kirishitan Rebels in Early Modern Japan: through Spiritual Xuguio (KBL) and Letter of a Kirishitan Youth (EBL)

Shunta Takeyama

International Conference 'Circulation of Texts and Cultural Exchanges across the Transpacific Space: Spain, New Spain, the Philippines, and Japan (16th–19th Centuries)', Jun 7, 2026, Waseda University, Sophia University, RCCAH (Research Center for Culture, Arts, and Humanities) of the University of Santo Tomas Invited

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京都キリシタン世界の伸長と周縁地域の隆替 ―天理図書館所蔵キリシタン版「こんてむつすむん地」原蔵家周辺を足がかりに―

Shunta Takeyama

May 30, 2026, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tenri University Invited

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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）

Shunta Takeyama

Annual Conference in 2025 of the Association for the Study of Kirishitan Culture, Dec 7, 2025, Association for the Study of Kirishitan Culture
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―

Shunta Takeyama

キリシタン学研究会 (8th Regular Meeting), Nov 23, 2025, Kirishitan-gaku Kenkyukai

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Teaching Experience

Apr, 2026 - Present

Current Problems in the Study of History (Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Sophia Univeersity)

Professional Memberships

Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Sapientia Society in Sophia University
Kirishitan-gaku Kenkyukai
The Historical Society of Sophia University
Association for the Study of Kirishitan Culture

Major Works

Official website 'Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University' Japanese & English versions

Kirishitan Bunko Library at Sophia University

Dec 1, 2025 - Present Web Service

*Planning the structure, selecting, researching, and collecting contents and images, creating all sentences such as About, Guide, Treasures, Publications and others both in Japanese and in English. *As of 24 April, 2026. [Note] Subsequently, some items were removed from the 'Treasures' by the Kirishitan Bunko Library, Sophia University.

Major Research Projects

The Kirishitan who disappeared in the Philippines: Cultural interactions between Japanese, Chinese and European cultures in the early modern Spanish Philippines

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2026 - Mar, 2030

Akihiko Watanabe, Kojima Yoshie, Kishimoto Emi, Susumu Akune, Ruriko Sawamura, Mayu Fujikawa, Antonio Doñas, Wang Wenlu, Shunta Takeyam(Research Collaborator)

Academic Activities

Research cooperation of creating the provisional general catalogue of the Matsui Document (Familial & commercial documents from the Matsui Family, one of the founding family of the Osaka Boeki Kaisha, the successor of the Osaka Bazar in Japan & the Philippines) for '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

'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)) (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 all 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

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Social Activities

Contributing author and editor of Exhibition Catalogue 'Scary Books: Villains, Tortures, Monsters, and...?'

Edit, Others

Toyo Bunko (Contributing author of No 15: Flowers of the Japanese Martyrs), Jun 3, 2026 - Sep 23, 2026
Contributing author and editor of Exhibition Catalogue '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

Missionary Base that Opened the Door to the Modern Era... Toward World Heritage

Mokpo Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, News Roundup, Chapter 4 'A Legacy Left by Hidden Faith... The Significance of Nagasaki World Heritage', Mar 30, 2026 TV or radio program

Appeared as one of the Interviewee to the Professional Researchers on the Chapter from 08:11 onwards, titled 'A Legacy Left by Hidden Faith... The Significance of Nagasaki World Heritage.'
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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