First of all, according to "Relation of Japan (Relacion del Reino de Nippon a que llaman Corruptante Japon)" written by Avila GIRON who lived in Japan as a trading merchant for about 20 years between the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the early Edo period, it is noted that there was a group that ransacked Kyoto at one time, but 15 ringleaders were caught and they were boiled alive in oil at Sanjo-gawara in Kyoto.
まず、安土桃山時代から江戸時代初期の20年ほど日本に貿易商として滞在していたアビラ・ヒロンの記した『日本王国記』によると、かつて都（京都）を荒らしまわる集団がいたが、15人の頭目が捕らえられ京都の三条河原で生きたまま油で煮られたとの記述がある。