Syusaku Endo Literature Museum

The Endō Shusaku Bungakukan (Japanese远藤 周作文 学 馆, dt " Endō - Shusaku - Museum of Literature " ) was opened on 13 May 2000 in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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The museum collects materials from and about the writer Endō Shusaku, whose work was influenced by the Catholic faith. Originally, the museum was opened in 2000 as " Endō - Shusaku Literary Museum of the City Sotome " in the district Nishisonogi. With the incorporation Sotomes in the city of Nagasaki, this also took over the Museum of Literature.

The museum houses the reconstruction of Endo Endo's office with desk, manuscripts, photographs, etc. In addition, the museum in exchange for two years selects a main theme for the exhibition. In addition, a library is in the house and open space, which is intended for the mutual exchange. Here you can also examine the Endō of itself highly esteemed game of Go.

The city Sotome is known as the center of the so-called Kakure Kirishitan, hidden Christians.. Here also plays Endo's masterpiece Silence (沉 黙, Chimmoku ) of 1966 In 1987, the city had already Sotome a stone monument to Chimmoku (沈黙 の 碑, Chimmoku no ishibumi ) erected with the inscription:

人間 が こんなに 哀しい のに 主 よ 海 が あまりに 碧 いの です

Ningen ga Konna ni Kanashii noni Shu yo Umi ga amari ni Aoi no desu

Humanity is so sad oh Lord ( and ) sea so blue.

• Address: 77, Higashi - Shitsumachi, Nagasaki, 851-2327