Naitō Joan

Naitō Joan (内藤如安, died 1626),[1] son of Matsunaga Nagayori, was a Japanese samurai and lord of Yagi Castle. Earlier called, Naitō Tadatoshi (内藤忠俊),[2] he was baptised into the Catholic Church in 1564 and took the name Joan (from Portuguese João). He was the brother of a famous woman catechist, Naitō Julia. Following the shogunate’s anti-Christian edict of 1614 he was banished to Manila and died there in 1626.

Memorial to Naitō Joan

References

also misread as Yukiyasu
Hawley, Samuel Jay (2005). The Imjin War: Japan's sixteenth-century invasion of Korea and attempt to conquer China. Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch. p. 369. ISBN 89-954424-2-5. Tadatoshi, otherwise known as Joan, "Joan," the Portuguese version of "John," being the Christian name he had been given at his baptism thirty years before.

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[1] so misread as Yukiyasu

[2] Hawley, Samuel Jay (2005). The Imjin War: Japan's sixteenth-century invasion of Korea and attempt to conquer China. Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch. p. 369. ISBN 89-954424-2-5. Tadatoshi, otherwise known as Joan, "Joan," the Portuguese version of "John," being the Christian name he had been given at his baptism thirty years before.