BARONE ASIAN ANTIQUES

Jesus escaped the clutches of the Romans and fled to Japan where he lived a life in exile in this northern mountain village. There he married a woman called Miyuko, and they became parents of three daughters. Jesus died at the age of 106.

Two wooden crosses outside the village mark the graves of Jesus and his brother, Isukuri, and there is even a museum that remembers Jesus as a garlic farmer known to the Japanese as Daitenku Taro Jurai.

Isukuri, the people say, was crucified in Jerusalem instead of Jesus. When Jesus came to Shingo he brought with him the severed ear of his brother. Apparently it is only the ear that lies buried in that ancient tomb beside Jesus.

In the museum is a scroll, said to be a copy of an original document that was the last will and testament of Jesus. The original document, first discovered in the hands of a priest in 1935, was reportedly destroyed during the war. But a copy exists and is contained in a glass case.

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