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Updated: June 28, 2025
To this day the memory of Nobunaga is execrated by the Buddhists. To Nobunaga they give the title of Bakadono, or Lord Fool. It was in the three provinces of Bungo, Omura and Arima, that Christianity was most firmly rooted.
Well might that amiable, and venerable, and most learned Theban, Cockibus Bungo, who always held the stakes on these great occasions, exclaim, in his astonishment, to Cheesey, the janitor of many days as 'Like fire from flint I glanced away, disdaining the laws of gravitation by Mercury, I swear, yea, by his winged heel, I shall have at the Professor yet, if I live, and whisky and birsled pease fail me not."
Xavier now took advantage of a Portuguese vessel which called at Yamaguchi en route for Bungo, a province on the eastern littoral of Kyushu. His intention was to return for a time to the Indies, but on reaching Bungo he learned that its ruler, Otomo, wielded exceptional power and showed a disposition to welcome the Jesuit father.
"Letta," said Robin, settling the child more comfortably on his knee an attention which she received with a sigh of deep contentment, "are the people here kind to you?" "Yes, very kind. Old Meerta is as kind to me almost as mamma used to be, but I don't love her so much not nearly so much, and blind Bungo is a dear old man." "That's nice. And the others are they kind to you?" "What others?
According to the principles of the same doctors, women with child were allowed to make themselves miscarry by certain potions, and even to murder those children whom they brought into the world against their will; insomuch, that such unnatural cruelties were daily committed, and nothing was more common in the kingdom of Bungo, than those inhuman mothers: Some of them, to save the charges of their food and education, others to avoid the miseries attending poverty, and many to preserve the reputation of chastity, however debauched and infamous they were.
It consisted of four young men, representing the fiefs of Arima, Omura, and Bungo, and it is related that at Lisbon, Madrid, and Rome they were received with an elaborate show of dazzling magnificence, so that they carried back to their island home a vivid impression of the might and wealth of Western countries.
There followed the overthrowing of a cross in the Christian cemetery, the burning of a temple in the town of Hirado, and a street riot, the sequel being that the Jesuit fathers were compelled to return once more to Bungo."* *Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition; article "Japan," by Brinkley. All this conveys an idea of the guise under which Christianity was presented originally to the Japanese.
Setting out from some point in Kyushu probably the present Kagoshima Bay the expedition made its way up the east coast of the island, and reaching the Bungo Channel, where the tide is very rapid, obtained the services of a fisherman as pilot.
The new-comers landed at Kagoshima and found that the Satsuma baron was as keen as ever in welcoming foreign trade, although his attitude towards the alien religion continued antipathetic. Bungo now became the headquarters of the Jesuits in Japan.
The Emperor, having approved him, ordered that the fan of the "Prince of Lions" should be made over to him, and gave him the title of Bungo no Kami, and commanded that his name in the ring should be Oi-Kazé, the "Driving Wind." Further, as a sign that there should not be two styles of wrestling, a second fan was given to him bearing the inscription, "A single flavour is a beautiful custom."
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