1539–1606 Visitor of the East Indies missions; architect of accommodation Also written: Alessandro Valignano · アレッサンドロ・ヴァリニャーノ
The Neapolitan Visitor who reorganised the Japan mission on three inspection tours, imposing the policy of adaptation to Japanese custom, founding the seminaries and the press, and sending the Tenshō embassy to Europe. More than anyone else he shaped what Japanese Christianity became.