Naitō Joan

Naitō Joan (内藤如安, died 1626),^[1] son of Matsunaga Nagayori, was a Japanese samurai and lord of Yagi Castle in the Civil War period.

The Hana no Gosho [ja] Palace of Ashikaga clan was existed in Kyoto until 1559.

Earlier called Naitō Tadatoshi (内藤忠俊), he was appointed by Nobunaga Oda as the Magistrate of Kameoka, Kyoto Pref., and then in 1573 had the task of guarding the Hanano Gosho, the Palace of the Shōgun Yoshiaki Ashikaga in Kyoto, with his 2,000 soldiers.^[2]

In 1564, he was baptised into the Catholic Church and took the name Joan (from Portuguese João). He was the brother of the famous woman catechist, Naitō Julia. Following the shogunate’s anti-Christian edict of 1614, he was banished to Manila, where he died in 1626.

References

^ 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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[1] so misread as Yukiyasu

[2] 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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