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| * ''Other name: Tawara Chikaie | | * ''Other name: Tawara Chikaie |
| * ''Distinction: [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] retainer | | * ''Distinction: [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] retainer |
| + | * ''Japanese'': [[大友]] 親家 ''(Ootomo Chikaie)'' |
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| + | Chikaie was the 2nd son of [[Otomo Sorin|Ôtomo Yoshishige (Sôrin)]]. |
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− | Chikaie was the 2nd son of [[Otomo Sorin|Ôtomo Yoshishige (Sôrin)]]. Owing to his bad nature, he was sent into the priesthood. After he had mended his behavior, he was allowed to return to secular life. In [[1575]] he was baptized and in [[1579]] he was adopted as heir into the Tawara family. Around [[1586]] he feuded with his brother [[Otomo Yoshimune|Yoshimune]] and was accused of colluding with the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]]. After [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] armies had driven back the Shimazu, Hideyoshi wanted to execute Chikaie but was convinced by Sôrin to instead deprive him of his domain.
| + | He resisted his father's plans to have him become a Buddhist monk, and was then given over to the care and instruction of Padre Francisco Cabral, Superior of the [[Jesuit]] mission. In [[1575]], Chikaie was baptized and given the name Sebastião; he later abandoned [[Christianity]], however, in part on the advice of Sôrin's wife, a woman known only by the Jesuits' epithet for her - [[Otomo Nata Jezebel|Jezebel]] - and of other elites in his social circles. |
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| + | In [[1579]], he was adopted as heir by his uncle [[Tawara Chikakata]] ("Jezebel's" brother). Around [[1586]] he feuded with his brother [[Otomo Yoshimune|Ôtomo Yoshimune]] and was accused of colluding with the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]]. After [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] armies had driven back the Shimazu, Hideyoshi wanted to execute Chikaie but was convinced by Sôrin to instead deprive him of his domain. |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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| + | *Haruko Nawata Ward, ''Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century'', Ashgate (2009), 115-116, 119. |
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| [[Category:Christians]] | | [[Category:Christians]] |
| [[Category:Samurai]] | | [[Category:Samurai]] |
| [[Category:Sengoku Period]] | | [[Category:Sengoku Period]] |