Chimmoku Monument

Original Text

When I went to the Izu Church in the Outer Sea District of Nagasaki City, which is a World Heritage Site of Hidden Christians in Nagasaki, Shusaku Endo's novel, which modeled after the Outer Sea District, at the entrance of the Outer Sea History and Folklore Museum where I parked my car. A monument of silence was. The main character of silence is a missionary who remained in Japan after the Christian ban, and there is also the Shusaku Endo Memorial Hall on the outskirts of Izu. The monument and the memorial hall are on a hill overlooking the East China Sea.

Original Text

The monument of silence is located along the national highway toward Izu Bunka Village. You can see the open sea in the back of the monument and it is very beautiful. I didn't notice it when I went to Izu Church. When I returned to the national highway, I noticed it along the road. If you look only in front, it may be a little difficult to understand.

Original Text

I read the stone monument while imagining the time while remembering the scenes and novels of the silent movie at the monument with a good view of the open sea. It is just a short drive from the Open Sea History and Folklore Museum. 'Even though humans are so sad, Lord' is a stone monument suitable for this place.

Original Text

This stone monument is located at the entrance of Izu Cultural Village in the open sea, which is a stage of silence, overlooking the outside. It is not in the Shusaku Endo Cultural Center. I have thought about Christians 々.

Original Text

　There is a large stone monument on the left side of the way to the Shitsu Bunka Village, not the Endo Shusaku Literature Museum. In this place where the novel was set, I imagined the life and feelings of a hidden Christian surrounded by the same sea and mountains as at that time.