[30] Tomás Hernández was sent, soon after his arrival at Manila (1602), to the Japan mission; but at the end of four years he returned with broken health, which compelled him to cease his labors. He lingered, however, until 1642, when he died at Manila. [31] See list of these missionaries in Reseña biográfica, i, pp. 307-319. Thirty-one arrived at Manila, besides the two who died on the way. [32] One of the year-periods used in Japanese chronology (see Vol. VIII, p. 263). The Keicho period is 1596-1615. [33] All these priests became martyrs, except Hernandez; the fate of the lay brother is unknown. [34] One of the Koshiki Islands, lying west of Satsuma, and belonging to that district. [35] Konishi Yukinaga Tsu-no-Kami, a noted general, was converted in 1584, and took the name of Augustin. In 1592 he commanded the main army (composed mainly of Christian Japanese) sent by Taikô-sama for the conquest of Korea. Konishi won renown in that enterprise, in which he was engaged until Taikô-sama's death (1598) caused the recall of the Japanese troops from Korea. Opposing Iyeyasu, Konishi was among the prisoners taken at the battle of Sekigahara (1600), and was beheaded at Kioto. See Rein's Japan, pp. 284-288, 290, 299. [36] Owotomo Bungo-no-Kami (called Franciscus by the Jesuits), the most powerful feudal lord in Kiushiu, was one of the first daimiôs in Japan to accept Christianity, and was the main support of the missions in their early years. He died in 1587. The family of this prince were deprived, under Iyeyasu, of their possessions, which were divided among the latter's adherents. See Rein's Japan, pp. 273, 519. [37] This was a soldier named Joan Diaz (Vol. XV, pp. 189, 279). Cf. Morga's account of this Dominican mission (Vol. XV, pp. 279, 280). [38] Jerónimo de Belén, a Portuguese by birth, came in the mission of 1595, from Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico. He ministered at Bataán, Manila, and Cavite respectively; in 1603 went on the Camboja mission, and on its failure returned to Manila. He died in 1642, in Pampanga. [39] Sketches of the lives of all these friars are given in Reseña biográfica, i, pp. 320-327. [40] This friar came in 1604; he died at Nasiping, July 16, 1611. [41] Pedro Muriel came to the islands in 1615, and was sent to the Cagayán missions, where he seems to have spent most of his remaining years. He died at Manila, about 1642. [42] Itaves is a district south of central Cagayán, on the waters of the Rio Chico de Cagayan (or Bangag River). It has over 15,000 inhabitants, contained in more than a hundred villages; these people are mainly Calauas, and are heathen Malays. See U. S. Gazetteer of Philippine Islands, p. 561; also Smithsonian Report, 1899, p. 535. [43] Juan de Naya spent most of his missionary life in Cagayán. Finally being ordered to Mexico, he died on the voyage thither, January 27, 1620.