Abstract
This paper is a study concerning Virgin Mary’s appearance which was supposed to have happened in the early years of Meiji era. In 1867, 153 believers were exiled to Tsuwano-han (present Shimane prefecture) on the occasion of the so-called Urakami-Yonbankuzure. There was a 30-year-old man called Yasutaro among Tsuwano believers. He collapsed by torture of confinement in a 90cm small jail. It has been narrated that he saw " Virgin Mary's appearance " one night. Strictly speaking, he told to his friends " I saw the beautiful lady clothed in a blue gown. So far as the topic of this study is a memory making of this occurrence, we are not here concerned with whether or not Virgin Mary really appeared. This paper is a micro historical discourse analysis of Virgin Mary’s appearance that focuses on how Yasutaro’s friends described the occurrence that he himself narrated.
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