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Portuguese Jesuits in Japan: The Secret Christian Network
While Portugal’s global empire is often defined by trade routes and military forts, its most enduring cultural export was perhaps the quiet, subversive work of the Society of Jesus in sixteenth-century Japan. This episode explores how Portuguese missionaries, led by Francis Xavier and later supported by a network of crypto-Christian communities, navigated the complex political landscape of the Sengoku period. We examine the strategy of cultural accommodation that allowed Christianity to take root among the Daimyō and commoners alike, only to face brutal suppression under the Tokugawa…
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