Christian tribe

...Christianity was first introduced to Japan by the Jesuit Francis Xavier in 1549 (Tenbun 18). The spirit of love contained in the doctrine and the organized, enthusiastic, and skillful missionary activities of the Catholic orders (Jesuits, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Dominicans) that were affiliated with Portugal and Spain allowed Christianity to be accepted by people under the oppressive pressure of the turmoil of the Warring States period, and the influence of the religion spread through twists and turns. Meanwhile, the second half of the 16th century was a time when unified powers such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu emerged in succession, and the country was pacified by their military force, and a centralized feudal system (a bakufu-han system of society) based on the separation of soldiers and farmers and the principle of the rice yield system was in the process of being formed. ...

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…キリスト教は1549年(天文18)イエズス会士ザビエルによって初めて日本に伝えられたが，教理に包摂されていた愛の精神やポルトガル，スペイン両国と提携したカトリック諸教団(イエズス会，フランシスコ会，アウグスティヌス会，ドミニコ会)の組織的で熱烈かつ巧妙な布教活動によって，同教は戦国争乱の重圧下にあった人々に受容され，教勢は曲折を経て拡大されていった。一方，16世紀後半は，織田信長，豊臣秀吉，徳川家康らの統一権力が相ついで出現した時期で，彼らの武力によって国内の平定は進められ，兵農分離と石高制原理に立脚した集権的封建体制(幕藩体制社会)は形成の途上にあった。…

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