Footprints of the Martyrs of the Hosokawa Domain@No.13B 
Genya Ogasawara and Miya Kagayama 4
Kagayama Hayato had been picked up by the Hosokawa family while he was a ronin (a samurai without a master). However his overlord Tadaoki could not bring himself to clamp down on the Ogasawara family. He decided not to execute Genya's family, but merely banished them from Ogura and provided them with a ration of rice (sutebuchi)..
* Something like contribution given on mercy
The families of Genya and Miya were banished among the peasants and outlaws
on the outskirts of Ogura and survived as farmers as best they could in
dire poverty. At one time, as samurai, their families had enjoyed
wealth, status and power, but now they worked like slaves among the poorest
peasants. If they had wanted, they could have gone back to
their life of ease. However, they carried out the humblest tasks
without complaining, indeed with a sense of gratitude. Their only
desire was to be able to follow Jesus Christ faithfully till the end of
their days.
"We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed,
but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not
destroyed-- " 2Corinthians 4:8-9
(The Kyoto Glory Church Translation Committee is responsible for the wording of this article.)
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