nirado

Updated: January 27, 2026

Then a man named Nirado Shiro raised the banner of the Virgin and called on all Christians and others to follow him. Probably as many as thirty thousand men, women and children, but without a single foreigner, lay or clerical, among them, gathered from parts of Kiushiu. Against an army of veterans, led by skilled commanders, the fortress held out during four months.

William Elliot Griffis - The Religions of Japan: From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji