Julia Ota

[4] However, she grew restless as rumours of religious persecution in Edo reached her ears, and she made arrangements to distribute her money and belongings to the poverty-stricken Christians.

[2]Around 1609, Julia Ota heard news that a retainer of the Mōri clan by the name Murata Unnaki (村田安政) had the same birthmarks as her younger brother who was separated from her in Korea when she was 13 and he was 6.

There, despite orders from the Nagasaki bugyō, she did not cease her evangelical activities and was driven out of her home multiple times.

[4] Despite evidence to the contrary, there remains a number of gravesites on the Izu Islands purporting to be that of Julia Ota.

[4] In 1972, earth from her alleged grave on Kōzu-shima was brought to Seoul's Jeoldu-san, a memorial shrine for Korean Christians, as a symbolic homecoming.

Julia Ota's hand-written letter addressed to Murata Unnaki, dated Aug. 19, 1609.
The " Kirishitan lantern" in Hōdai-in, Shizuoka . It was said that Julia Ota worshipped at this lantern before it was moved from Sunpu Castle to the temple when Christianity was banned in the castle. [ 10 ]