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*''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.
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==References==
*Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 105.
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[[Category:Foreigners]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''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.
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==References==
*Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 105.
[[Category:Christians]]
[[Category:Foreigners]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]