Tawara Chikatsura
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Tawara Chikatsura was an adopted son of Tawara Chikakata.
According to the writings of Jesuit Luis Frois, at age 14, while in Usuki with his father, Chikatsura encountered some Christians and was seized by desire to convert to Christianity. His father Chikakata, along with Chikakata's sister (Ôtomo Sôrin's wife "Jezebel"), then forbid him from any contact with the Church, and removed him to another location, placing a guard over him to keep him from seeking to join the Christians. However, while under guard for the next two years, he maintained a secret correspondence with the Jesuits, and read Christian materials, and was eventually baptized in 1577.
References
- Haruko Nawata Ward, Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, Ashgate (2009), 117.
