S wall mural, Crucifixions, detail

“{…} already the crosses were prepare (which, aside from the beam which crossed above, had one in the middle on which to sit and another on which laid the feet of the crucified), and which were placed alongside the pits which were made, and the many Portuguese and Japanese who had come together were getting the way {…}” (de Ribadeneira, Marcelo, Historia de las islas del Archipiélago Filipino y reinos de la Gran China, Tartaria, Cochinchina, Malaca, Siam, Cambodge y Japón, La Editorial Católica, S.A, Madrid, 1947, p. 480) (personal translation)

The image below appears as page 341 (vertical format) in Historia de las islas del Archipiélago Filipino y reinos de la Gran China, Tartaria, Cochinchina, Malaca, Siam, Cambodge y Japón by Marcelo de Ribadeneira (1601), republished by Editorial Católica, Madrid, 1947.

The print title (horizontal format) is: Glorioso martirio de los 23 protomártires del Japón, pertinicientes a la Orden Seráficay provincia apostólica de Descalzos de Filipinas en 5 febrero de 1597.
The three Japanese Jesuits are excluded, resulting in the number 23 rather than 26.