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    Luís Fróis (1532 – 8 July 1597) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and missionary who worked in Asia, most notably Japan, during the second half of the 16th...
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    recorded in a 1581 letter Luís Fróis wrote to Lourenço Mexia, and in the 1582 Annual Report of the Jesuit Mission in Japan also by Fróis. These were published...
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    addendum to Luís Fróis's 1582 Annals of Japan (on Nobunaga's death), it is stated that Nobunaga intended to conquer China. According to Fróis, Nobunaga...
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    Ieyasu group until they safely reached Mikawa. Portuguese missionary Luís Fróis had recorded in his work History of Japan, that during this journey, Tokugawa...
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    Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, who had also seen and described the ships. However, in the letter from João Rodrigues to Luís Fróis in 1593, full iron-covered...
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  • including samurai Yasuke, one of the two playable characters, missionaries Luís Fróis and Alessandro Valignano, daimyō Oda Nobunaga, samurai Hattori Hanzo,...
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    Japan. As konpeitō uses much sugar, it was rare and expensive. In 1569, Luís Fróis, a Portuguese missionary, presented a glass flask of konpeitō to Oda Nobunaga...
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    missionary Luis Frois wrote in his "History of Japan" that even the bones were burned to ashes. In the "History of Japan" compiled by Luís Fróis, it is suggested...
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    missionary Father Luís Fróis mentioned the strong homosexual relationship between Yoshiteru and his squire, Odachidono. According to Father Fróis, the shōgun's...
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    "Historia de Iapam" by Luís Fróis and "História da Igreja do Japão" (also by João Rodrigues) on the history of Japan. In 1556 Jesuit Luís de Almeida, who disseminated...
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    Century in Japan 1549-1650, University of California Press, 1951 p.199 Luís Fróis, História do Japão, volume IV pg.123. 1976 edition, Biblioteca Nacional...
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    He secured an audience between Oda Nobunaga and the Jesuit Missionary Luís Fróis, and was a staunch supporter of the Catholic Church throughout his life...
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    戦国戦記本能寺の変・山崎の戦 (1958年) (in Japanese). 春秋社. p. 65. Retrieved 9 May 2024. Luís Fróis;History of Japan..; Nihon Yoso-kai Annual Report", Japanese historical...
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  • talked directly with daimyos, opening the center of Japan to the mission. Luís Fróis (1563, Portugal) A Jesuit who befriended Oda Nobunaga and published the...
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    of European traders and Catholic missionaries (Alessandro Valignano, Luís Fróis, Gnecchi-Soldo Organtino) in Japan saw one of the earliest relatively...
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  • diferenças de costumes entre a gente de Europa e esta província de Japão of Luís Fróis, in which he described Japanese life concerning the roles and duties of...
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  • swordsmen of his time. According to several historical books, including Luís Fróis' Historia de Japam, he fought hard with naginata and tachi during a raid...
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    Mikado's Empire. (New York: Harper & Brothers), p. 163 Griffis, p. 163 Luís Fróis, Furoisu Nihon-shi 12, trans. Matsuda Kiichi and Kawasaki Momota (Tokyo:...
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    Nobunaga because Sakamoto was a strategically important place to rule. Luís Fróis described the castle as the second best castle in Japan at the time. After...
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    and his group until they safely reached Mikawa. Portuguese missionary Luís Fróis recorded in his work History of Japan that during this journey, Tokugawa...
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    swordsmen of his time. According to several historical books, including Luís Fróis' Historia de Japam, he fought hard with naginata and tachi during a raid...
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  • Shima as they save Roberto Frois, a Christian missionary from Spain who wants to take revenge on his guardian Luís Fróis for allying himself with the...
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    戦国戦記本能寺の変・山崎の戦 (1958年) (in Japanese). 春秋社. p. 65. Retrieved 9 May 2024. Luís Fróis;History of Japan..; Nihon Yoso-kai Annual Report", Japanese historical...
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    missionary Father Luís Fróis mentioned the strong homosexual relationship between Yoshiteru and his squire, Odachidono. According to Father Fróis, the shōgun's...
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    depictions in contemporary art, and in the narratives of missionaries such as Luís Fróis. Christianity in Japan Nanban art, Japanese art of the sixteenth and seventeenth...
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    English cardinal (d. 1594) Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (d. 1585) Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary (d. 1597) Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer...
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    respected, handsome, well-behaved and skillful. Jesuit missionary and writer Luís Fróis described the residents of Chorão as follows, "These Brahmins are very...
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    he had been interacting, accompany him to the gate of the residence. Luís Fróis, a Portuguese Jesuits missionary, wrote in his History of Japan that he...
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  • Modern Japan. Princeton University Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-4008-7206-0. Luis Frois SJ (14 March 2014). The First European Description of Japan, 1585: A Critical...
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    with a revenue equivalent to 10,000 koku, like a minor daimyo. Myorin: Luís Fróis describes that a woman was the ruler of an area that is currently Ōita...
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