Ōmura Sumitada

大村純忠

1533–1587
First Christian daimyō; opened and ceded Nagasaki
Also written: Ōmura Sumitada · 大村純忠

The Hizen lord who took baptism in 1563 as Dom Bartolomeu — the first daimyō to do so — and opened Nagasaki to the Portuguese ship in 1571. Nine years later he ceded the town to the Society of Jesus, the boldest of all the mission's bargains.

Appears in

The Visitor: Alessandro Valignano and the Remaking of the Japan Mission
An Offering Refused: Buddhism, Kami, and Christianity in Japan, 1500–1700
The Christian Century: Faith and Power in Feudal Japan
Number of Christian Converts in Japan, 1549–1700
A Complete Timeline of Portuguese-Japanese Exchange, 1543–1650
The Man Who Stayed: Cosme de Torres and the Long Decade of the Japanese Mission
O Desejado: Dom Sebastião and the Ghost That Haunted Two Empires
The Soldier Who Would Not Bend: Francisco Cabral and the Battle for Japan’s Soul
Gaspar Coelho: The Priest Who Thought He Was a Prince
Hideyoshi’s Edict: The Night Japan Turned Against the Church
The Warlord Descends: Hideyoshi’s 1587 Kyūshū Campaign
The Year on the Gable: Hirado, the Matsuura Lords, and the Century of the Open Door, 1543–1641
The Kōri Debacle: How a Rumor About a 13-Year-Old Boy Unmade a Hidden Church
Much the Better Port: Kuchinotsu, the Harbor That Sheltered the Japan Mission, 1562–1638
The Surgeon’s Capital: Luís de Almeida in Japan, 1552–1583
The Chronicler: Luís Fróis and the 34-Year Report
The Madre de Deus Affair: The Ship That Blew Up a Century
Nagasaki: How a Handful of Fishermen’s Huts Became the Trade Capital of the World
The Portuguese in Yamaguchi
The Price of a Person: The Portuguese Trade in Japanese Slaves
Takayama Ukon: The Samurai Who Chose God Over Japan
The Tenshō Embassy: Japanese Princes in Renaissance Europe

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