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*''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 [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] for the next six years, dying in his cell in [[1714]].

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==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 290n64.
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