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Giovanni Battista Sidotti was the last Christian missionary to enter Japan during the Tokugawa period, prior to Bakumatsu.
He entered Japan in 1708, and was interrogated by Arai Hakuseki; he then remained imprisoned by the shogunate for the next six years, dying in his cell in 1714.
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 290n64.
