Known Korean Martyrs in Japan

NAME (According to known records)

Date of Death

Place of Death

HACHIKAN JOAQUIN

1613 Aug.16

Edo (Tokyo)

MIGUEL

1614 Nov.22

Kuchinotsu

JINKURÕ PEDRO

1614 Nov.22

Kuchinotsu

ARIZÕ PEDRO

1619 Jun.20

Kuwara (Omura)

SHÕSAKU TOMAS

1619 Jun.20

Suzuta (Omura)

Blessed TAKEYA SOZABURÕ COSME

1619 Nov.18

Nagasaki

Blessed YAGÕ JUAN

1622 Aug.19

Nagasaki

Blessed HAMANOMACHI ANTONIO

1622 Sept.10

Nagasaki

Blessed MARIA

1622 Sept.10

Nagasaki

Blessed TAKEYA INES

1622 Sept.10

Nagasaki

Blessed HAMANOMACHI JUAN

1622 Sept.10

Nagasaki

Blessed HAMANOMACHI PEDRO

1622 Sept.10

Nagasaki

Blessed TAKEYA FRANCISCO (12 Yrs)

1622 Sept.11 

Nagasaki

SIXTO KUZAEMON

1624 Sept. 4

Shimo Innai (Dewa)

CATALINA

1624 Sept. 4

Shimo Innai (Dewa)

Blessed GAYO, nSJ

1624 Nov.5

Nagasaki

Blessed KAUN VICENTE SJ

1626 June 20

Nagasaki

Blessed SATO SHIN’EMON TOMÉ

1627 Aug.16

Nagasaki

Blessed TSUJI SHÕBYÕE (GASPAR VAZ)

1627 Aug.16

Nagasaki

Blessed AKASHI JIEMON CAYO

1627 Aug.16 

Nagasaki

ÕTA JULIA

1628?


ISABEL DE NAGASAKI

1629

Unzen-Nagasaki

PAULO

1630 Jan.12

Shiki (Amakusa)

JUAN

1633 Aug. 15

Nagasaki

The WIFE of Juan

1633 Aug. 15

Nagasaki

TOMAS

1643 March.20

Nagasaki

According to some documents, in 1594 there were
 about 2000 Korean Christians in Japan.

In 1610 the Korean Confraternity and the first Korean Church,
San Lorenzo is founded in Nagasaki. It was destroyed in 1620.