Conclusion

In 1582, several elite Japanese converts to Catholicism boarded a Portuguese ship in Nagasaki and sailed for the lands of their converters. The head of the Jesuit missions in the East Indies, Alessandro Valignano, had organized this delegation of the sons of Christian feudal lords (Kirishitan daimyo) with two objectives in mind: to show his brothers and superiors in Portugal, Spain, and Rome the headway the Jesuits were making in Japan by displaying these noble, refined, and pious converted young men, thus encouraging further investment in the mission, and to impress upon the young Japanese men the glory of Catholic