• The Hasami Town History and Culture Exchange Center (Hasami Museum) introduces the history of the town of Hasami and its Christian culture, displaying historical materials and items in the section “Hasami and Christian Culture” of Permanent Exhibition Room 1 (Middle Ages).

• The exhibits include a photo of the “Bologna Senate Diary” (possessed by the State Archives of Bologna, Italy), the only material that records that Hara Martinho, one of the members of the Tensho embassy to Europe, was from Hasami.

• Also on display is the “Speech of Hara Martinho” (reproduction and photo), an acknowledgment given in Latin on behalf of the envoy to the Society of Jesus and the investigating commissioner Alessandro Valignano in Goa, India on the way back from Rome to Japan.

• Another exhibition is a world map showing the route taken by the Tensho embassy to Europe and related episodes, and a retracing of the footsteps Hara Martinho took, together with the roles he played, till his death in Macau after returning to Japan. In addition, information on Gaspar Sadamatsu, a missionary and Beato from Hasami, and Christian gravestones (Nonokawago) in Hasami is provided in an easy-to-understand manner.

• The museum also provides a glimpse of the history of the Omura Domain and Christianity, from the prohibition of Christianity and the secret transmission of the faith in the early Edo Period to Urakami Yoban Kuzure (the fourth crackdown on hidden Christians in Urakami Village) at the end of the Edo Period, and the lifting of the ban on Christianity in 1873.

• In addition, a four-sided stone stela with cross designs carved on its surfaces and bearing the inscription “INRI,” a movable crucifix for worship from the early Edo Period (around the 1600s) discovered in Takebetago in the town of Hasami, is also on display. (Refer to another page)