O-shima

(ō-shē`mä), island, c.35 sq mi (90 sq km), near the entrance to Tokyo Bay, E Japan. The largest and most northerly of the Izu-shichito group, it is the site of volcanic Mt. Mihara (2,477 ft/7,550 m), which last erupted in 1986. Agriculture and fishing are chief activities there. It is a recreation area for Tokyo. The island was visited (17th cent.) by Maarten Vries, the Dutch navigator.

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"The Golden Country." It covers some of the material found in Silence but, as translator Francis Mathy notes in his introduction, "the impression that caps the play and remains longest with the playergoer is that of the courage, nobility and love of the martyrs." As the drama ends with a report that all the loyal Christian arrested had been executed, a messenger comes in with the news that "Four Christian priests have just landed in Amami O-shima. They came over in a small boat rowed by Chinese and managed to land under cover of night."