The twenty-four were six Franciscan foreign priests, three Japanese Jesuits and fifteen Japanese Christians. Catechists, catechists trainees, former Buddhist monks, worriers, merchants and three children were included to them. But women were not in these first martyrs. Obviously many women got martyred after that.
Hideyoshi decided to execute these twenty-four in Nagasaki, and ordered to place their wretched figure on display through main cities like Osaka, Kyoto and so on, cutting off their noses and both ears. But Mitsunari Ishida a magistrate of Kyoto pardoned and as a result only the lobe of the left ear would be cut.
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