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Description: Toyotomi Hideyoshi promulgated a ban on Christianity in form of the "Bateren-tsuiho-rei" (the Purge Directive Order to the Jesuits) on July 24, 1587. Hideyoshi put Nagasaki under his direct rule to control Portuguese trade. It was published in Matsuura Historical Museum in Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture. 定 日本ハ神國たる處、きりしたん國より邪法を授候儀、太以不可然候事。 其國郡之者を近附、門徒になし、神社佛閣を打破らせ、前代未聞候。國郡在所知行等給人に被下候儀者、當座之事候。天下よりの御法度を相守諸事可得其意處、下々として猥義曲事事。 伴天連其智恵之法を以、心さし次第二檀那を持候と被思召候ヘバ、如右日域之佛法を相破事前事候條、伴天連儀日本之地ニハおかせられ間敷候間、今日より廿日之間二用意仕可歸國候。其中に下々伴天連儀に不謂族申懸もの在之ハ、曲事たるへき事。 黑船之儀ハ商買之事候間、各別に候之條、年月を經諸事賣買いたすへき事。 自今以後佛法のさまたけを不成輩ハ、商人之儀ハ不及申、いつれにてもきりしたん國より往還くるしからす候條、可成其意事。已上 天正十五年六月十九日     朱印 吉利支丹伴天連追放令(原文は松浦史料博物館蔵の松浦家文書)
Title: Toyotomi-Hideyoshi-Purge-Directive-Order-to-the-Jesuits-July-24-1587
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Author: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598)
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