In 1597, during the prohibition of Christianity ordered by Hideyoshi, after their earlobes were cut off at this bridge as a warning to others, the Nihon Nijuroku Seijin (the twenty-six Christian martyrs) were taken to Nagasaki where they were martyred.
また秀吉のキリスト教禁教令のもと、1597年には、日本二十六聖人と呼ばれるキリスト教殉教者は、ここで見せしめに耳たぶを切り落とされ、殉教地長崎へと向かわされた。