Reinier H. Hesselink is the author of Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in Seventeenth-Century Japanese Diplomacy (2002) and many articles on Japanese and world history in English, Dutch, Japanese, and Portuguese journals and other scholarly publications. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviated Genealogies of the Arima, ¿mura, Nagasaki and Chijiwa Houses

Timeline for the History of Christian Nagasaki

A Note on Currencies, Weights and Dates

Part One: Founding Fathers (1561-1586)

From Hirado to Yokoseura: Luis d'Almeida (1)

Becoming a Christian: ¿mura Sumitada (1)

The Mission's Superior: Cosme de Torrès

A New Anchorage: Luis d'Almeida (2)

A Knight in Superior Armor: João Pereira

The Chinese in Nagasaki Bay: Nagasaki Sumikata

A Man for the Jesuits: ¿mura Sumitada (2)

Nagasaki Bay in 1568: Gaspar Vilela

The Busy Scribbler: Luís Fróis (1)

The Founding of Nagasaki: Francisco Cabral

No Place for the ­Fainthearted: Belchior de Figueiredo

Christian Champion: Gaspar Coelho (1)

The "Donation" of Nagasaki: Alessandro Valignano

The ­King-Sized Admiral: Ambrósio Fernandes

Militant Missionaries: Gaspar Coelho (2)

Part Two: Brave New World (1587-1613)

The Conqueror of Kyushu: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1)

The Slave Trader: Domingos Monteiro

Rewriting History: Luís Fróis (2)

Master of the Tenka: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (2)

A Hapless Captain Major: Roque de Melo

A Spaniard from Peru: Juan de Solís

A New Head of the Mission: Pedro Gómez

The Spanish Spy: Bernardo Avila Girón (1)

A Cockaigne of Sex: Francesco Carletti (1)

The Martyred Mendicant: Pedro Blásquez

A Town Under Pressure: Francesco Carletti (2)

The Italian Painter: Giovanni Cola

A Chinese Madonna: Matsupo/Maso

The Eyes and Ears of Ieyasu: Ogasawara Ichi'an

Anti-Christian Cabal: The Hasegawa Siblings

The Last Conquistador: André Pessoa

Part Three: Forging a Yamato Soul (1614-1629)

The Second Prohibition: Tokugawa Ieyasu

The Last Processions: Bernardo Avila Girón (2)

The City Occupied: Yamaguchi Naotomo

The Destruction of the Churches: Hasegawa Sahy¿e

An Early Apostate: Chijiwa Miguel

The Taiwan Expedition: Murayama T¿an

Dangerous Litigation: Murayama T¿an vs. Suetsugu Heiz¿

The New Governor: Hasegawa Gonroku (1)

In Pursuit of Ordination: Araki Thomé

Changes in the City: Hasegawa Gonroku (2)

The Summer of 1622: Bento Fernandes

A Japanese Padre: Kimura Sebastião

The ­Ten-Family System: ­Hama-no-machi Antonio

The Corral of the Martyrs: Sukedayu

Repressive Measures: Tokugawa Iemitsu

A ­Hard-Liner: Mizuno Morinobu

The Climax of the Persecution: Takenaka Shigeyoshi

The Brave ­Ex-Mayor: Machida João

Epilogue: Nagasaki in the 1630s

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index