Some who wanted to remain Christians were banished. Takayama Ukon for instance, who with a number of Japanese Christians, was exiled to the Philippines, a country that was then a colony of Spain.
Cain
Rodrigo Juri <
rodjuri@...> wrote:
Basically, you should remember that the portugueses arrived to Japan in 1543. Christianity was spreaded very quickly in the hands of the jesuits.
And soon some daimyos were converted. Maybe some of them really found truth in the western faith, but most of them accepted to become baptized in order to get economical advantages in their deals with the portugueses.
Whatever the reason was, obviuosly, when the lord was baptized soon all their retainers followed his example. In that way, in fact, most of the catholic samurais (there were not protestant samurais) become christian only because it was his duty toward his lord. Some few exceptions exist anyway.
And when the Tokugawa regime banned the christianity the vast majority of them just changed their faith as soon as his lord changed.
The few ones that chose to persist in their beliefs (samurais and farmers) were persecuted and most of them were indeed baptized in blood (martyrized).
Asanga Chameera <
chameera@...> wrote: Deal All,
I got know that there were Christian Samurais , If you let you let me
know their History , it would be interesting. Thanks!
Best Regards
Chameera
Sri Lanka
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