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* ''Born: [[1544]]?''

* ''Born: c[[1549]]''

* ''Died: [[1626]]''

* ''Died: [[1626]]''

* ''Titles: Hida no kami''

* ''Baptismal Name: '' João (=John) Japanese: ジョアン, 如安 or 如庵

* ''Other names: John''

* ''Other names: '' Tadatoshi, Hida-no-kami　飛騨の守, Tokuan 徳庵

* ''Distinction: [[Toyotomi clan|Toyotomi]] retainer''

* Also referred to in various writings as John Naito, John Fujiwara (from the 藤 in Naitô), Konishi Hida-no-kami Joan, Don Juan, Yukiyasu (alternate reading of 如安), etc.

* ''Distinction: '' Christian daimyo, envoy to Peking

* ''Japanese'': Naitô Joan [[内藤]] 如安 or 如庵

Yukiyasu was the son of [[Naito Masatoyo|Naitô Genzaemon]] and held [[Hachiboku castle]] in [[Tamba province]]. Though he was dispossessed by [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]] in [[1573]], he was later restored to his domains by [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]. During the Korean Campaigns he acted as a negotiator with the Chinese government. He was a Christian and joined [[Takayama Ukon]] in taking up with [[Maeda Toshiie]] in [[Kaga province]] when their faith brought them under Hideyoshi's suspicion. In [[1614]] he departed for Manila in exile and there died of illness. His Christian name was John.

In [[1565]], when he was about 16, he heard about Christianity from a Christian woman ([[Constance of Tanba]]) who had been forced to leave [[Nagato province]]. He visited Kyoto and was baptized there.

In [[1573]] he sided with the shogun [[Ashikaga Yoshiaki]] and then apparently as a result left Tanba. He lived for a while in [[Aki province]] with Yoshiaki.  

 

Probably around [[1588]] he started serving  [[Konishi Yukinaga]]. During the [[Korean Invasion]] Yukinaga was desirous of securing a peace treaty with the Chinese and ending the war quickly. He sent Joan to Peking in [[1593]] for peace talks, but Joan did not have authority from [[Hashiba Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi]], and the talks did not bring about an end to the conflict.

 

After the [[Battle of Sekigahara]], Yukinaga was executed and his lands in the southern half of [[Higo province]] were given to [[Kato Kiyomasa|Katô Kiyomasa]]. Many of Yukinaga's retainers, including the Naitôs, accepted Kiyomasa's invitation to stay and serve him. However about 1602 Kiyomasa tried to force the Christians to join the [[Nichiren-shu|Nichiren-shû]] 日蓮宗. Konishi's retainers agreed to go to sermons, but many, including Joan, refused to go further. They were forbidden to leave the province and driven out of their homes to live in the mountains. Eventually outside pressure was brought on Kiyomasa and he allowed them to leave.  The next year Joan and his family received an invitation to settle in [[Kaga province]] of the [[Maeda clan]] doubtless through the influence of [[Takayama Ukon]].

 

At the end of  [[1613]] [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Ieyasu]] promulgated a national anti-Christian edict. At the beginning of the next year [[Maeda Toshitsune]] received an order to arrest several important Christian families, including the Takayamas and Naitos, and send them to Kyoto. The Takayamas and Naitôs and some of the women from a convent in Kyoto founded by Joan's sister [[Naito Julia|Julia]] were send to Nagasaki, and then at the end of the year to [[Manilla]] in the Philippines. The Spanish there welcomed them warmly and provided for their support.  Joan worked at translating Christian and medical books from Chinese into Japanese and died in [[1626]]. His wife died there a number of years later. Some  some of his descendants stayed in the Philippines, but one of his sons apparently went back to Kaga and eventually renounced Christianity. His descendents were registered as [[Kirishitan Ruizoku]] 切支丹類族 and kept under surveilance until [[1864]], apparently much longer than the normal five generations.

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