Giuseppe Chiara

• Died: 1657
• Other Names: 岡本三右衛門 (Okamoto San'emon)

Giuseppe Chiara was an Italian priest who apostatized (swore off Christianity) in 1643. He later married a Japanese woman, taking the name and samurai status of her late husband, Okamoto San'emon.

He died in 1657 at the age of 82.

References

• Gary Leupp, Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900, A&C Black (2003), 105.