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| Theodore Augustin Forcade was a French Catholic missionary, active on [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Okinawa]] in [[1844]] to [[1846]]. | | Theodore Augustin Forcade was a French Catholic missionary, active on [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Okinawa]] in [[1844]] to [[1846]]. |
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− | Forcade first arrived in Ryûkyû in April 1844 aboard the ''[[Alcmene]]'', along with a Chinese interpreter known as Augustine Ho. Forcade remained in the islands for two years, residing at the Buddhist temple [[Seigen-ji]]. He had originally represented himself as merely an interpreter, and when his missionary proclivities became evident, it stirred up considerable difficulties and concerns for the royal government. | + | Forcade first arrived in Ryûkyû in April 1844 aboard the ''[[Alcmene]]'', along with a Chinese interpreter known as Augustin Ho. Forcade remained in the islands for two years, residing at the Buddhist temple [[Seigen-ji]]. He had originally represented himself as merely an interpreter, and when his missionary proclivities became evident, it stirred up considerable difficulties and concerns for the royal government. |
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| He departed the islands in 1846/8, aboard the ''[[Sabine]]'', one of two French ships which had arrived earlier that year, leaving new missionaries, [[Mathieu Adnet]] and [[Pierre-Julien Le Turdu]], in Forcade's place. | | He departed the islands in 1846/8, aboard the ''[[Sabine]]'', one of two French ships which had arrived earlier that year, leaving new missionaries, [[Mathieu Adnet]] and [[Pierre-Julien Le Turdu]], in Forcade's place. |
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| *Mark McNally, "A King's Legitimacy and a Kingdom's Exceptionality: Ryûkyû's Bankoku Shinryô no Kane of 1458," ''International Journal of Okinawan Studies'' 6 (2015), 87. | | *Mark McNally, "A King's Legitimacy and a Kingdom's Exceptionality: Ryûkyû's Bankoku Shinryô no Kane of 1458," ''International Journal of Okinawan Studies'' 6 (2015), 87. |
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− | [[Category:Foreigners]] | + | [[Category:Foreigners|Forcade]] |
− | [[Category:Christians]] | + | [[Category:Christians|Forcade]] |
− | [[Category:Edo Period]] | + | [[Category:Edo Period|Forcade]] |