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    The Tenshō embassy (Japanese: 天正の使節, named after the Tenshō Era in which the embassy took place) was an embassy sent by the Japanese Christian Lord Ōtomo...
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    Council of Kiyosu. February 20, 1582 (Tenshō 10, 28th day of the 1st month): A Japanese mission or embassy to Europe (Tenshō Ken'ō Shisetsu) sailed from Nagasaki...
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    historic mission is sometimes referred to as the "Tenshō Embassy" because it was initiated in the Tenshō era. This venture was organized by three daimyōs...
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    Sukekuni. It followed the so-called First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862), even though the Tensho Embassy (1582–1590) and the expedition led by Hasekura...
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    Itō Mancio (category Members of the Tenshō embassy)
    マンショ, c.1569 – 13 November 1612) was a Japanese Jesuit, head of the Tenshō embassy; the first Japanese diplomatic mission to Europe, and a Catholic priest...
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    Alessandro Valignano (category Members of the Tenshō embassy)
    to keep the traffic to a minimum. Valignano was the initiator of the Tenshō embassy, the first official Japanese delegation to Europe, and accompanied the...
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    name, it is more accurately the third Japanese embassy to Europe, being preceded by the Tenshō embassy (1582–1590) and the expedition led by Hasekura...
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    Miguel Chijiwa (category Members of the Tenshō embassy)
    the Japanese delegation to European Christendom, also known as the Tenshō embassy. Later, he abandoned the Christian faith. However, the recent discovery...
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    records, Sōrin sent political delegations to Goa in the 1550s, and the Tenshō embassy to Rome in 1582. In addition to fostering relations with the Christians...
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    nominated, but currently not in the list. Kirishitan Kakure Kirishitan Tenshō embassy Hasekura Tsunenaga Nagasaki Peace Park World Heritage Sites in Japan...
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    Ōmura Sumitada (category Members of the Tenshō embassy)
    Ōmura Sumitada (大村 純忠, 1533 – June 23, 1587) was a Japanese daimyō lord of the Sengoku period. He became famous throughout the country for being the first...
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  • idea of sending a Japanese embassy to Europe, and the screens became part of this plan. This became the so-called Tenshō embassy of 1582–1592, consisting...
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    Gregory XIII was visited by the Tenshō embassy of Japan, becoming the first Pope to have received such an embassy. On behalf of the Japanese ruler Oda...
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    in 1553 Tenshō embassy, first Japanese embassy to visit Europe, in 1582 Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Japanese emissary who led the Keichō Embassy (慶長使節) to...
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    visit Europe, in 1553 Tenshō embassy, first Japanese embassy to visit Europe, in 1582 Hasekura Tsunenaga, lead the Keichō Embassy, a diplomatic mission...
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    Christian delegates known as the Tenshō embassy left Nagasaki, Japan and traveled on a grand tour of Europe. In 1584, the embassy arrived to Toledo and Madrid...
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    Bernardo died, however, upon his return to Portugal in February 1557. Tenshō embassy (1582) William Adams, first Englishman who traveled to Japan (1600)...
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    the Battle of Yamazaki. Hideyoshi initiated the Taikō kenchi surveys. Tenshō embassy is sent by the Japanese Christian lord Ōtomo Sōrin. 1584: Hideyoshi...
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    Ōmura Sumitada. In 1590, when Valignano returned to Japan with the Tenshō embassy to Europe, Fróis accompanied him and met with Hideyoshi at Jurakudai...
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    historic mission is sometimes referred to as the "Tenshō Embassy" because it was initiated in the Tenshō era. This venture was organized by three daimyōs...
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    Western-style movable type printing-press was brought to Japan by the Tenshō embassy in 1590, and was first used for printing in Kazusa, Nagasaki in 1591...
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    records, Sōrin sent political delegations to Goa in the 1550s, and the Tenshō embassy to Rome in 1582. He also forced his subjects to convert. and ordered...
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    Pow-Key Western style movable type printing-press was brought to Japan by Tenshō embassy in 1590, and was first printed in Kazusa, Nagasaki in 1591. However...
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    Gregorian calendar (adopted 1582) works. August 11 – (Tenshō 12, 16th day of the 7th month) The Tenshō embassy, Japan's first diplomatic mission to Europe, arrives...
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    Vigilance Venetian Senator Portrait of Mancio Itō, a Japanese from the Tenshō Embassy Edward Chaney and Timothy Wilks, The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart...
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    first Western style movable type printing-press was brought to Japan by Tenshō embassy in 1590, and was first printed in Kazusa, Nagasaki in 1591. However...
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  • Japanese actress Martinho Hara (マルティノ 原, 1569-1629), Japanese nobleman of Tenshō embassy who was one of the first official Japanese emissaries to Europe. Masafumi...
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    (about US$650 million) for the coming year. In what became known as the Tenshō embassy, the first ambassadors from Japan to European powers reached Lisbon...
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    first Western style movable type printing-press was brought to Japan by Tenshō embassy in 1590, and was first printed in Kazusa, Nagasaki in 1591. However...
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    the Jesuits. Portugal enters in a dynastic union with Spain. 1582 - Tenshō embassy to Europe departs from Nagasaki. 1584 - Mancio Itō arrives in Lisbon...
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