Site in Nagasaki. This memorial is dedicated to twenty-six Christians, twenty Japanese and six missionaries, who were arrested in Kyoto in 1597 under the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi for preaching Christianity and forced to walk nearly 600 kilometers to Nagasaki, where they were executed to serve as an example to the Christians there. This memorial also has a museum with several exhibits of the history of Christianity in Japan, including the Tokugawa Bakufu's harsh methods of interrogating and torturing Christians and how the covert Christians remained hidden. This memorial and museum demonstrate the reaction of both the Bakufu and commoners to Western ideas, Christianity in particular, and the spread and repression of these ideas before and during isolation.
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