So-called "treading image" (jap. fumi-e). The bronze-cast image shows Mary in relief as the Madonna of the Rosary (here, however, without the usual rosary surrounding her) with the infant Jesus on her knees, surrounded by St Dominic, St Catherine of Siena St Catherine of Siena and members of religious orders. The relief is already clearly flattened by use flattened by use and reduced in detail. The background to the pedal painting is the ban on Christians in 1614 and the subsequent persecution of Christians in Japan. In order to obtain proof of the the inhabitants of the region around Nagasaki had to tread with their bare feet on Nagasaki region had to step on an image of a saint with their bare feet on New Year's Day. Due to the institutionalisation institutionalisation of this custom, there was a need for more durable images of saints.