- Reference Code
maregaA26
- Title
Fonds Marega File A26
- Date Range
- Late 17th to early 20th century
- Primary Date Range
- 1703, 1844, 1938
- Date Range Notes
- 1703 (Genroku 16), 1844 (Tenpō 15), 1938
- Description Level
File
- Quantity
- 49 records (2 Italian documents, 25 Jō, 1 Tatechō, 2 hōshi).
- Provenance / Creation
- Father Mario Marega (Produced from the Office of Religious Affairs), Vatican.
- Place Name
- Usuki City and Ōita City (Ōita Prefecture),
- Positions, etc
- Salesians of Don Bosco, missionary.
- Archival History
- A26 had been held in Vatican Apostolic Archive, and is managed by Vatican Library at least since 2020. There are 26 items and most of them came from the Usuki Domain’s Office of Religious Affairs (shumonkata). These materials (A26) were brought by Father Vincenzo Cimatti, who was the Provincial of Salesians, from Japan when he visited the Vatican City, therefore, the archival history differs from that of other groups of materials. He conveyed 32 materials in which 8 of them (their original location has yet to be found at the moment) were used and inserted in Marega’s treatise entitled “Memorie cristiane della regione di Oita” in Annali Lateranensi Vol. 3 published by Lateran Museum as an organ. Therefore, other 26 materials are acquired in the Vatican Library as A26.
- Scope and Content
A26, as already written in Archival History, is composed of 26 documents brought by Father Vincenzo Cimatti and the affixed letters about their acceptance history in Vatican. Every document comes from the Usuki Domain’s Office of Religious Affairs. Here are the details: 4 certificates of the religion inquisitions submitted by feudal retainers in 1703 (Genroku 16) and in 1852 (Kaei 5), 21 certificates of the religion inquisitions submitted by temples in 1844 (Tenpo 15), and the one shūmon aratame maitsuki shiage goningumi kakitsuke 宗門改毎月仕上五人組書付 (five household unit documents submitted monthly for religious inquisition) in 1837 (Tenpo 8). All of them have control numbers put by Marega.
- Languages Used
- Japanese – 26 (include hōshi), Italian – 2.
- Holding Institution Name
- the Vatican Library (managed by the Vatican Library)
- Date Description Written
- 2020/12/10
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