Jesuits / 耶稣会

Jesuits / 耶稣会 appear in 14.武士威廉：大航海时代的日本和西方 as the Catholic missionary network already established in Japan before [[WilliamAdams|William Adams / 三浦按针]] arrives. The episode says missionaries and Iberian merchants had built influence through trade and conversion, and it gives a source figure of about 150,000 Japanese Catholics at the time.

In the source, Jesuits initially become Adams’s adversaries: after learning that the stranded sailors are English and Dutch rather than Iberian Catholics, they describe them as pirates and push for execution. Later they try unsuccessfully to convert Adams. Their expulsion under [[TokugawaIeyasu|Tokugawa Ieyasu]] in 1614 marks the policy turn from selective openness toward control of Christian risk.

Key Claims

• Jesuit influence makes Japan a contested contact zone before Adams arrives.
• Their conflict with Adams is not only doctrinal; it is bound to trade rivalry, information control, and Confessional Trade Conflict.
• The source uses Jesuit expulsion to show Tokugawa Foreign-Trade Ambivalence hardening under security pressure.

Connections

• Portugal and Spain - Catholic maritime context.
• [[WilliamAdams|William Adams / 三浦按针]] - Protestant-linked rival and later diplomatic adviser.
• [[TokugawaIeyasu|Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and Tokugawa Shogunate / 德川幕府 - rulers weighing missionary risk.
• [[KonishiYukinaga|Konishi Yukinaga]] and [[HasekuraTsunenaga|Hasekura Tsunenaga]] - Japanese Christian and diplomatic side branches.
• Confessional Trade Conflict, Tokugawa Foreign-Trade Ambivalence, and Early Modern Japan-Europe Contact - concepts connected by the source.