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The order was founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), and before long boasted bases in Lisbon, Rome, and Paris, among other European cities, as well as missions in North and South America, India, and China.<ref>Robert Tignor, [[Benjamin Elman]], et al, ''Worlds Together, Worlds Apart'', vol B, Fourth Edition, W.W. Norton & Co (2014), 465.</ref>

The order was founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), and before long boasted bases in Lisbon, Rome, and Paris, among other European cities, as well as missions in North and South America, India, and China.<ref>Robert Tignor, [[Benjamin Elman]], et al, ''Worlds Together, Worlds Apart'', vol B, Fourth Edition, W.W. Norton & Co (2014), 465.</ref>

The first Jesuits to arrive in Japan included [[Francis Xavier]], and arrived in Japan in [[1549]], a mere nine years after the founding of the order. They founded the first Jesuit mission in Japan in that year, in [[Satsuma province]], before moving on to [[Hirado]] in [[1550]], and then to [[Nagato province]] (Chôshû), often proselytizing in the streets.

The first Jesuits to arrive in Japan included [[Francis Xavier]], and arrived in Japan in [[1549]], a mere nine years after the founding of the order. They founded the first Jesuit mission in Japan in that year, in [[Satsuma province]], before moving on to [[Hirado]] in [[1550]], and then to [[Nagato province]] (Chôshû), often proselytizing in the streets. While European merchants generally limited their own activities to the ports of [[Kyushu]], and particularly to [[Hizen province]] and [[Nagasaki]], the missionaries delved deep into the country; few of the archipelago's sixty [[provinces]] went wholly untouched by missionary influence.<ref>William Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur Tiedemann (eds.), ''Sources of Japanese Tradition'', Second Edition, vol 2, Columbia University Press (2005), 144.</ref>

Though appalled by Japanese practices of sodomy and  [[shudo|pederasty]], and of course wholly disapproving of [[Buddhism]] and [[Shinto]] as "pagan" religions, the Jesuits for the most part, at least initially, held rather positive views of the Japanese. Jesuit Visitor (i.e. supervisor) [[Alessandro Valignano]] wrote of the Japanese as "white, courteous, and highly civilized," and wrote of their dignity, cleanliness, rationality, and a host of other positive traits.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 123.</ref>

Though appalled by Japanese practices of sodomy and  [[shudo|pederasty]], and of course wholly disapproving of [[Buddhism]] and [[Shinto]] as "pagan" religions, the Jesuits for the most part, at least initially, held rather positive views of the Japanese. Jesuit Visitor (i.e. supervisor) [[Alessandro Valignano]] wrote of the Japanese as "white, courteous, and highly civilized," and wrote of their dignity, cleanliness, rationality, and a host of other positive traits.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 123.</ref>