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Gaspar Coelho

1530–1590
Vice-provincial whose bravado helped provoke the 1587 edict
Also written: Gaspar Coelho · ガスパル・コエリョ
The vice-provincial who greeted Hideyoshi aboard an armed fusta and hinted at Christian daimyō leverage — miscalculations that fed the taikō's suspicions on the eve of the 1587 edict. He died three years later, the mission still reeling from the turn he had helped provoke.

Full article: Gaspar Coelho: The Priest Who Thought He Was a Prince

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