A peer-reviewed academic study of Christian martyrdom in early modern Japan across 1597 to 1658, surveying the historiography's own competing aggregate estimates of the total dead, including Charles Boxer's range of two thousand to five thousand and Yakichi Kataoka's figure of four thousand, without fully reconciling the different scopes and methods behind each count.
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PublisherHipogrifo: Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares), vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 927 to 947 1 Publication Year Assessment
Reliability TierA signed, peer-reviewed article in an academic journal of early modern studies, surveying and comparing the historiography's own named aggregate martyrdom estimates rather than offering an unreconciled popular figure. Sources
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- Wars & Conflicts, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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