froez

Updated: May 13, 2025

He welcomed Christianity largely as an opponent of Buddhism, and when Takayama conducted Froez from Sakai to Nobunaga's presence, the Jesuit received a cordial welcome. Thenceforth, during the fourteen remaining years of his life, Nobunaga steadily befriended the missionaries in particular and foreign visitors to Japan in general.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era