Christian missionaries arrived in Japan with Francis Xavier and the Jesuits in the 1540s and briefly flourished, with over 100,000 converts, including many daimyōs in Kyushu. It soon met resistance fr
The martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, 1590-1600 tempera painting, Japan.
The gravestone (second from the left), in Malacca's St. Paul's Church, of Pedro Martins S.J., the second bishop of Funai, who had died in February 1598.
Japanese-Portuguese Bell Inscribed 1570, Nantoyōsō Collection, Japan
A Japanese votive altar, Nanban style. End of the 16th century. Guimet Museum.
San Felipe incident (1596)
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On October 19, 1596, the Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on Urado in Kōchi on the Japanese island of Shikoku en route from Manila to Acapulco. The local daimyo Chōsokabe Motochika seized the c
Northerly trade route as used by eastbound Manila galleons