A monument in Katahiracho, Sendai, commemorating Christian martyrs executed under the Tokugawa shogunate's anti-Christian edicts in 1624. Now located near Tohoku University's Katahira Campus.
In the early 17th century, the Tokugawa shogunate designated Christianity as a subversive ideology and implemented a nationwide policy of prohibition and suppression. The Sendai Domain was no exception, and missionaries and believers concealed within the domain were arrested one after another. In 16…
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