Literary Museum, located in the area of Sotome in the North-Western part of Nagasaki, dedicated to the life and work of writer Shusaku Endo. This outstanding Japanese author lived from 1923 to 1996, his works have been recognized with many national literary award. 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 the writer's death in 2000. The district Sotome was chosen for the Museum is not by chance – in this place unfolds the novel "Silence", one of the major works of Shusaku Endo, written in 1966 and was awarded the prize named Junichiro Tanizaki. Other books by the author of an award winning name ryunosuke Akutagawa (in 1955) and the name Noma (1980).

The district Sotome is considered the birthplace of secret Christians in Nagasaki. In the novel "Silence" secretly preaching the Christian doctrine, a Portuguese priest, who under the threat of torture formally renounces the faith. The action takes place in the early seventeenth century, when Christianity in Japan were persecuted, and Europeans preachers were tortured, executed or exiled.

Of shusaku Endo was a devout Catholic, so Christian is the Central theme in his work. He converted to Roman Catholicism under the influence of his mother and was baptized by the name of Paul. In Keio University's future writer studied Philology against the will of the father who saw his son a physician. During the Second world war, Shusaku Endo was mobilized for forced labor in a munitions factory. Because of lung disease Endo received a deferment from military service, but the war ended, and with the disease the writer has struggled throughout life, but was unable to win. In the early 50-ies of the last century of Shusaku Endo studied French literature in Lyon, and a year later after returning home in 1955, he wrote the story "the White man", which earned him the award named Akutagawa and real fame.

In the exposition of the Museum presents books and manuscripts, letters, photographs and personal belongings of the writer, including a Desk, a Bible, a rosary, a statue of the blessed virgin Mary, which of Shusaku Endo inherited from the mother and which stood at the head of his bed throughout his life.