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  2. Justo Takayama - Wikipedia

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    Sword, crucifix, samurai robes, martyr's palm Justo Takayama Ukon ( ジュスト高山右近 ) , born Takayama Hikogorō ( 高山彦五郎 ) and also known as Dom Justo Takayama (c. 1552/1553 - 5 February 1615) was a Japanese Catholic daimyō and samurai during the Sengoku period that saw rampant anti-Catholic sentiment.

  3. Junshi - Wikipedia

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    On another occasion, when Lord Tokugawa Tadakichi, the fourth son of Ieyasu, died in 1607, it was reported that five of his men chose death by junshi. In 1634, when Lord Satake Yoshinobu was dying, an executive samurai of the lord's Edo residence admonished his vassals that the lord did not desire them to die after him even though,

  4. Seppuku - Wikipedia

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    ' indignation death '), which is any suicide made to protest or state dissatisfaction. [citation needed] Some samurai chose to perform a considerably more taxing form of seppuku known as jūmonji giri (十文字切り, lit. ' cross-shaped cut '), in which there is no kaishakunin to put a quick end to the samurai's suffering. It involves a ...

  5. Martyrs of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Martyrdom of Paul Miki and Companions in Nagasaki. The Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖人, Nihon Nijūroku Seijin) refers to a group of Christians who were executed by crucifixion after a forced march from Kyoto to Nagasaki. with the crucifixion taking place on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki.

  6. Samurai - Wikipedia

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    A samurai in his armour in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato. Samurai or bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]) were members of the warrior class in Japan.They were most prominent as aristocratic warriors during the country's feudal period from the 12th century to early 17th century, and thereafter as a top class in the social hierarchy of the Edo period until their abolishment in the ...

  7. Bushido - Wikipedia

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    Samurai did not actively seek an honorable death. [5] However, it was honorable to die in the service of a daimyo only while furthering the daimyo's cause. [5] Samurai had dark customs, the most notable: Kiri-sute gomen was the right to strike lower class who dishonored them. [5] Seppuku was ritual suicide, to die honorably or restore one's honor.

  8. 26 Martyrs of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Martyrdom of Paul Miki and Companions in Nagasaki St. Francisco Blanco. In the aftermath of the San Felipe incident of 1596, [4] 26 Catholics – four Spaniards, one Mexican, one Portuguese from India (all of whom were Franciscan missionaries), three Japanese Jesuits, and 17 Japanese members of the Third Order of St. Francis, including three young boys who served as altar boys for the ...

  9. Amakusa Shirō - Wikipedia

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    Samurai, Revolutionary Masuda Shirō Tokisada ( 益田 四郎 時貞 , c. 1621? – 28 February 1638) , also known as Amakusa Shirō ( 天草 四郎 ) , was a Japanese Christian of the Edo period and leader of the Shimabara Rebellion , an uprising of Japanese Roman Catholics against the Shogunate .