Naitō Joan
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Memorial to Naitō Joan
Naitō Joan (内藤 如安, died 1626),[1] son of , was a Japanese samurai and lord of Yagi Castle. Earlier called, Naitō Tadatoshi (内藤 忠俊),[2] he was baptised into the Catholic Church in 1564 and took the name Joan (from Portuguese João). He was the brother of a famous woman catechist, Naitō Julia. Following the shogunate’s anti-Christian edict of 1614 he was banished to Manila and died there in 1626.
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- ^ also misread as Yukiyasu
- ^ Hawley, Samuel Jay (2005). The Imjin War: Japan's sixteenth-century invasion of Korea and attempt to conquer China. Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch. p. 369. ISBN 89-954424-2-5.
Tadatoshi, otherwise known as Joan, "Joan," the Portuguese version of "John," being the Christian name he had been given at his baptism thirty years before.
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