Giovanni Battista Sidotti

• Born: 1668
• Died: 1714

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.