Hasekura Tsunenaga
支倉常長
1571–1622
Envoy of the Keichō embassy to Spain and Rome
Also written: Hasekura Tsunenaga · 支倉常長
The Sendai samurai whom Date Masamune sent across two oceans to Madrid and Rome, 1613–1620 — the most ambitious Japanese diplomatic mission of the century. He was baptised in Spain and returned to a Japan where his new faith had been banned in his absence.
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