This is last pics for Nagasaki trip.
Its very sad place. 26 Christians were executed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. 20 of Japanese, 4 of Spanish, 1 of Portuguese and 1 of Mexican. It said, There were history that Christians burnt down some temples and monks were persecuted by christians. (but Where the Dainyo was a buddhism, christians were persecuted by monks in that area.) One incident occurred such as some Japanese people were sold as slave by foreign businessman and foreign christians. therefore, Toyotomi Hideyoshi granted of banned christian and ejected them from Japan. This is memorial for these 26 christians.
(豊臣秀吉が発令した「バテレン追放令」により処刑された26人のキリスト教徒の記念碑)
