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This article examines the case of the town of Nagasaki at the time of Japan’s “Christian century” (16th-17th centuries). The Jesuits had been present in the country for more than 30 years when the town was donated to them by the Ômura daimyo (local lord), in the early 1580s. Thereafter, Nagasaki became a unique case among Japan’s cities, endowed with a distinctive urban identity. The seat of a diocese and the only fully Christian town in Japan, Nagasaki was also the main port for Portuguese merchant ships linking Japan with Macau and China, which together contributed greatly to the territory’s dynamism and fostered cultural hybridization. But that did not go without generating uncertainties and conflicts, which kept on worsening at the turn of the 17th century. |
