Footprints of the Martyrs of the Hosokawa Domain　No.11A



Genya Ogasawara and Miya Kagayama 2


Miya Kagayama, wife of Genya Ogasawara, was the eldest daughter of Hayato Kagayama. Her father Hayato, one of Tadaoki Hosokawa's most important retainers, was a Christian who refused to obey Tadaoki’s order to abandon Christianity and died a martyr’s death in Buzen, Ogura in 1619.

When Miya’s father was executed, she was in her early twenties and married to Genya with whom she had a child.  Miya’s mother Mary and her sister Lucia, who had been in Hayato’s house at the time of his execution, expressed their desire to follow him to martyrdom.  Miya also prayed to the Lord that she could believe in Jesus Christ and keep her faith to the end.



(The Kyoto Glory Church Translation Committee is responsible for the wording of this article.)

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References
　｢日本キリシタン殉教史」　片岡弥吉著
　｢キリシタン地図を歩く（殉教者の横顔）」　日本１８８殉教者列福調査歴史委員会編
　「細川ガラシャのすべて」　上総英郎編

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