Kirisuto no Haka (キリストの墓)
From Kook Science
Kirisuto no Haka (キリストの墓; English: "The Grave of Christ") is an earthen mound in Herai (戸来村), a former village now (since 1955) part of Shingo in Sannohe County, Aomori Prefecture, Japan that has been purported to be the burial place of Jesus Christ. The designation of the mound as Christ's tomb was first made 7 August 1935 (8月7日 昭和10年) by Kiyomaro Takenouchi (竹内巨麿), founder of the Koso Kotai Jingu Amatsukyo (皇祖皇太神宮天津教), who made public — and likely authored — the Takenouchi Documents (竹内文書), a collection of texts described as having been passed down in secret by the Takenouchi through many centuries and which is claimed to be "the true history of the world."
Near the Kirisuto mound is another earthen mound that was claimed by Takenouchi to be the burial place of Isukiri (or, at least, his ear), who was the brother of Jesus Christ, according to Takenouchi, and had been the real victim of the crucifixion at Golgotha, allowing Christ's escape to Japan, where he adopted the name Tenku Taro Jurai (十来太郎天空) or Tarō Hachinohe (八戸太郎) and lived out the remainder of his long life.
Reading
- Lidz, Franz (Jan. 2013) (in English), The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan: A mountain hamlet in northern Japan claims Jesus Christ was buried there, Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/
- (in Japanese) キリストの墓 (日本), ja.wikipedia.org, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%81%AE%E5%A2%93_(%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC)