1640 Macau embassy to Nagasaki

1640 Macau embassy to Nagasaki File:Relaçaõ da gloriosa morte de qvatro Embaixadores Portuguezes.jpg 250px Front page of the 1643 book "Report of the Glorious Death of Four Portuguese Ambassadors from the City of Macau, with Fifty-seven Christians of their Delegation." by António Francisco Cardimde Sousa 2019 332-333 ポルトガル使節団長崎受難事件 ja 6 July – 4 August 1640 Nagasaki, Japan Diplomatic mission Senate of Macau 74 crew (including 4 ambassadors) Embassy seized 61 executed Luís Pais PachecoRodrigo Sanches de ParedesGonçalo Monteiro de CarvalhoSimão Vaz de Pavia Also known as "Martyr Embassy" (pt Embaixada Mártir) The 1640 Macau embassy to Nagasaki ポルトガル使節団長崎受難事件松竹 1989 45 (pt Embaixada Mártir)松竹 1989 65 was a diplomatic mission dispatched by the Senate of Macau to Nagasaki in July 1640. Its purpose was to try and reverse the Tokugawa shogunate's decision to end nearly a century of Portuguese trade in Japan in 1639.Boxer 1951 383Simões 2016 95 The ban followed the Shimabara Rebellion, which the shogunate incorrectly blamed the Portuguese for aiding through the smuggling of supplies and missionaries.Boxer 1951 383-384 Since Macau's economy relied on the annual trade with Japan,de Sousa 2019 328 the city's assembly resolved on March 13, 1640,Simões 2016 95de Sousa 2019 328 to dispatch four ambassadors, Luís Pais Pacheco, Rodrigo Sanches de Paredes, Gonçalo Monteiro de Carvalho and Simão Vaz de Paiva,de Sousa 2019 328 along with sailors and slaves, totaling 74 crew.de Sousa 2019 330 All participants knew that the risk of death was almost certain.Boxer 1951 384 The embassy's vessel arrived at Nagasaki on July 6, 1640,de Sousa 2019 330Simões 2016 96Boxer 1951 385 however, all of the delegation members were imprisoned and detained on DejimaSimões 2016 96Boxer 1951 385 by Kagazume Minbu and Nonoyama Shinbei松竹 1989 72 while their appeals were sent to Edo.Boxer 1951 385 On 3de Sousa 2019 332–4Boxer 1951 385 August 1640, 61 members of the mission, including all four ambassadors, were beheaded on Martyrs' Mount in Nagasaki, and their ship was burned in the harbor.Simões 2016 96de Sousa 2019 332Boxer 1951 385 13 men were spared and sent back to Macau on 1 September to deliver the message of the embassy's fate.Simões 2016 96de Sousa 2019 332 References Bibliography Boxer C. R. C. R. Boxer The Christian Century in Japan: 1549–1650 https://books.google.com/books?id=2R4DA2lip9gC 1951 University of California de Sousa Lúcio The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves https://www.academia.edu/114851126 2019 Brill Leiden 7 9789004388079 Simões João Carlos dos Santos As Relações Luso‑Nipónicas durante a Época Nanban 2016 University of Coimbra https://estudogeral.uc.pt/bitstream/10316/100217/1/Tese%20Final.pdf 松竹 秀雄 寛永17年 (1640) ポルトガル使節団長崎受難事件 (2) A Study on the Execution of Portages Ambassadors in Nagasaki in the 17th year of Kanei (1640. A. D.) 經營と經濟 68 4 45–91 1989 02869101 https://nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/11949 Category:1640 in Japan Category:1640 in Portugal Category:History of Macau Category:History of Nagasaki Category:Japan–Portugal relations Category:Defunct diplomatic missions in Japan