However, this state of affairs did not last long. In 1611, three years before Ieyasu issued his edicts proscribing Christianity, Tadaoki banished all missionaries from his lands and ordered the chapel to be destroyed. It seems that for Tadaoki, who had gone from one mistress to another, without getting married after Gracia died, the exemplary moral lives of the Christians were a silent reproach which got on his nerves. (Nihon Junkyoroku by Moreion Pedro)
Whatever the reason, shortly after Ieyasu issued his edicts proscribing Christianity in 1613, Tadaoki, in no uncertain terms, ordered his Christian vassals to give up their faith.
There were four Christians in Hosokawafs domain who followed God to the end. One was Diego Kagayama Hayato, who became a martyr in Ogura on October 15th , 1619. Another was his cousin, Bartazar? Hanzaemon Kagayama, who was martyred in Hiji, Bungo (now Hide-cho in Oita) on the same day. Ogasawara Genya, the third son of Ogasawara Shosai, Hosokawafs chief retainer, who beheaded Gracia committing hara-kiri and commited hara-kiri, dying for his beliefs in Kumamoto in 1636. His wife was Kagayama Miya (a daughter of Kagayama Hayato). We will now follow in their footprints.
