Editing Christogram (section)

=== Lhq ===
{{see also|Kirishitan}}
[[File:キリシタン灯籠（梅窓院）.jpg|thumb|Lhq-inscription on a Japanese lantern]]
After [[Francis Xavier]] landed in [[Kagoshima]], Japan, in 1549, his missionary work grew and became widely distributed throughout Japan under the patronage of the {{transliteration|ja|[[daimyō]]}}. However, during the [[Edo period]] (1603–1867), Christians were persecuted and forced to hide. Because they were forbidden to openly reverence the images of Christ or [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary]], it is believed that they transferred their worship to other carved images and marked them with secret symbols understood only by the initiates. Certain [[Tōrō|Japanese lanterns]], notably the {{transliteration|ja|Kirishitan dōrō}} ({{lang|ja|キリシタン灯籠}}, 'Christian lanterns'), did bear the "Lhq" [[monogram]], which, a quarter turned, was engraved on the shaft ({{transliteration|ja|sao}}), which was buried directly into the soil without basal platform ({{lang|ja|kiso}}). The [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_Rune_lhq_Japanese_Runic_Character.png 'Lhq'] monogram corresponds to the distorted letters 'IHS'.<ref>{{aut|JAANUS}} (2010) [https://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/o/oribedourou.htm ''oribe dourou'' 織部灯籠], Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System</ref>