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New page: '''Giovanni Sidotti Batlista''' (1668 - 1714) was an Sicilian Jesuit missionary, who entered Japan in July 1708, despite the Tokugawa Shōgunate's ...
'''Giovanni Sidotti Batlista''' (1668 - 1714) was an [[Italy|Sicilian]] [[Jesuit]] missionary, who entered [[Japan]] in July 1708, despite the [[Tokugawa Shogunate|Tokugawa Shōgunate's]] ban on [[Christianity]]. He was arrested upon landing, and taken to Edo for interrogation. He was later imprisoned and spent the remainder of his life in captivity.
His arrest resulted in the ban on Christianity being strengthened and anybody who denounced Christians was rewarded with large sums of money. It was only after the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1867 and the rapid modernisation of Japan during the [[Meiji Restoration]] that the ban on Christianity was lifted.
One other result of his arrest was the later publication of the 3-volume work ''Seiyo kibun'' (西洋奇聞 A Report on the Occident) which was written by Arai Hakuseki. Hakuseki, a [[Confucius|Confucian]] scholar and high-ranking official of the shōgunate, who was curious about the West (he had read the works of Matteo Ricci and other Jesuits) had interviewed Sidotti, via a Latin interpreter, during his imprisonment.
==References==
* [http://www.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~areastd/mediterranean/mw/pdf/17/17TAKEUCHI.pdf "Perception of the Mediterranean World in China and Japan and vice versa in the History of Geography and Cartography"; Takeuchi Keiichi; Page 16]
* [http://fovism.artline.ro2_596_Christianity___Evidence_of_Belief_at_the_Tokyo_National_Museum_13114.html Christianity - Evidence of Belief at the Tokyo National Museum]
* [http://www.san.beck.org/3-12-Japan1615-1800.html Japan 1615-1800 by Sanderson Beck]
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[[category:Religion]][[Category:Japanese History]]
His arrest resulted in the ban on Christianity being strengthened and anybody who denounced Christians was rewarded with large sums of money. It was only after the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1867 and the rapid modernisation of Japan during the [[Meiji Restoration]] that the ban on Christianity was lifted.
One other result of his arrest was the later publication of the 3-volume work ''Seiyo kibun'' (西洋奇聞 A Report on the Occident) which was written by Arai Hakuseki. Hakuseki, a [[Confucius|Confucian]] scholar and high-ranking official of the shōgunate, who was curious about the West (he had read the works of Matteo Ricci and other Jesuits) had interviewed Sidotti, via a Latin interpreter, during his imprisonment.
==References==
* [http://www.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~areastd/mediterranean/mw/pdf/17/17TAKEUCHI.pdf "Perception of the Mediterranean World in China and Japan and vice versa in the History of Geography and Cartography"; Takeuchi Keiichi; Page 16]
* [http://fovism.artline.ro2_596_Christianity___Evidence_of_Belief_at_the_Tokyo_National_Museum_13114.html Christianity - Evidence of Belief at the Tokyo National Museum]
* [http://www.san.beck.org/3-12-Japan1615-1800.html Japan 1615-1800 by Sanderson Beck]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sidotti, Giovanni}}
[[category:Religion]][[Category:Japanese History]]