in a letter dated 10 june 1623 regarding missionary work from april 1622 to april 1623 in yonezawa, wakamatsu, mogami region, adami reported that infighting and persecution began in inawashiro after echigo became ill. saemonsuke oka, a nephew of echigo, was baptised but later committed apostasy. he assaulted the wives of vassals and asked echigo to become an apostate. saemonsuke also forced a son of echigo to commit apostasy. he died at a young age. four days after his son’s death, echigo died in an accident. a son-in-law of echigo died of illness four months later, and saemonsuke became the lord of the castle in inawashiro. even in these circumstances, 732 people from the area were baptised between april 1622 and april 1623, and over 400 more people were baptised by june 1623. the martyrdom of dewa (now yamagata) in oshu was reported by adami in 1624. even so, a further 360 people were baptised in kaneyama, in aizu. tadasato gamo, a grandson of ujisato, abandoned his christian faith on the advice of saemonsuke and began to persecute christians. adami wandered and stayed with shibayama and the other christians in aizu who were also later martyred. cosmo kazue hayashi, a long-time vassal and the treasurer of inawashiro castle, was martyred by decapitation in aizu by order of saemonsuke in 1626. adami headed to nagasaki in 1630 through edo (now tokyo). yama remained at the church of aizu and was sent to edo and martyred in 1632 at the age of 66. adami was captured and martyred at the gallows and the pit in nagasaki on 22 september 1633, one day after julian nakaura, a "beatus", was martyred at the same place and in the same manner. adami was 57 years old at the time of his martyrdom.