Urakami’s Catholic community built its cathedral after Japan lifted the ban on Christianity. The cathedral was part of a lived neighborhood. The Nagasaki archive’s wide view of Yamazato shows how the towers sat among the homes and roads around them.
The Ebisu Shrine photograph comes from an earlier period and documents a different part of Nagasaki. Read it alongside the cathedral image as evidence of the city’s varied religious life, then open the aerial archive to follow Urakami’s terrain and streets.