Literature Museum, located on the hundredth in the north-west part of Nagasaki, is dedicated to the life and work of the writer Shusaku Endo. This outstanding Japanese writer lived from 1923 to 1996, his works were marked by many national literary awards. In addition, Shusaku Endo was several times nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature, but never received it.

The museum was founded four years after his death - in 2000. Hundredth State was selected for the museum is not accidental - this is where the action unfolds novel "Silence", one of the major works of Shusaku Endo, written in 1966 and marked Junichiro Tanizaki Prize name. Other books of the author awarded Ryunosuke Akutagawa name (in 1955) and the name of Bromeliad (in 1980).

The area is the birthplace of one hundredth of secret Christians in Nagasaki. In the novel "Silence" secretly preaching Christian doctrine Portuguese priest who is at risk of torture formally renounces faith. The action takes place at the beginning of the XVII century, when Christianity was persecuted in Japan, and European preachers tortured, executed or expelled from the country.

Shusaku Endo professed Catholicism, so the Christian theme is central to his work. He converted to Catholicism under the influence of his mother and was baptized in the name of Paul. At Keio University, the future writer studied philology against the wishes of his father, who saw her son's physician. During World War II, Shusaku Endo was mobilized for forced labor in a munitions factory. Because lung diseases Endo received a deferment from military service, but the war ended, and the writer was struggling with the disease throughout their lives, but it could not win. In the early 50-ies Shusaku Endo studied French literature in Lyon, and a year after returning to his homeland in 1955, wrote a novel "White Man", which earned him the name of Akutagawa Prize and acclaim.

The exhibition features books and manuscripts, letters, photographs and personal belongings of the writer, including a desk, the Bible, a rosary, a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which Shusaku Endo inherited from the mother and which stood at the head of his bed throughout his life.