Okamoto Daihachi
?–1612
The fraudster whose scandal triggered the first Tokugawa ban
Also written: Okamoto Daihachi · 岡本大八
Christian retainer of Honda Masazumi who sold Arima Harunobu forged promises that the shogunate would restore his ancestral lands after the Madre de Deus affair. The fraud unravelled in 1612; Daihachi was burned at the stake in Suruga, Harunobu exiled and put to death — and Ieyasu, alarmed that both men were Christians, issued the first Tokugawa prohibition within weeks.
Full article: The Okamoto Daihachi Scandal: Corruption, Forgery, and the End of Christian Japan
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