{"id":289992,"date":"2026-07-25T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/travelpost\/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%ba%8c%e5%8d%81%e5%85%ad%e8%81%96%e4%ba%ba%e6%ae%89%e6%95%99%e5%9c%b0%e8%a5%bf%e5%9d%82%e5%85%ac%e5%9c%92\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:31:19","slug":"%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e4%ba%8c%e5%8d%81%e5%85%ad%e8%81%96%e4%ba%ba%e6%ae%89%e6%95%99%e5%9c%b0%e8%a5%bf%e5%9d%82%e5%85%ac%e5%9c%92","status":"publish","type":"travelpost","link":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/travelpost\/289992\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-six Saints Martyrdom of Japan (Nishisaka Park)"},"content":{"rendered":"


A land that tells the history of Christian persecution<\/p>\n


A monument stands in the park, which was maintained as Nishisaka Park<\/p>\n


The Memorial Hall of the Twenty-Six Saints of Japan also stands in the park<\/p>\n

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The site where six Franciscan priests and monks and twenty Japanese monks and followers captured by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Christians were executed in the first year of Gyeongsang (1597). It is said that the believers wished this place to be executed because of the resemblance to the hill of Golgotha, where Christ was crossed. 26. Many people were executed on this ground even after the martyrdom of the saint, it said. It was made into a park after the Pacific War, and in 1950, Pope Pius XII designated this area as an official pilgrimage site for Catholics. It is also a designated historic site in Nagasaki Prefecture, and in 1962, the 100th year after 26 saints were executed in the park, A monument to the life-size fitted [iname] bronze statue of the sculptor, Takesaku Funakoshi, \"Inori no Asunori\", and the \"Memorial Hall of the Twenty-Six Saints of Japan\", which is rich in material on Kirishitan, was built.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":219882,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289992","travelpost","type-travelpost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spot"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/289992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/travelpost"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/289992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}