Hideyoshi's crackdown was based on this info; he saw the Portuguese as trying to take over the country via Christianity, reacted accordingly
The Dutch had Hideyoshi's attention and passed along all the Protestant talking points vis-a-vis Catholics
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u have ur timelines confused, dutch reached Japan post Hideyoshi (he died in 1598) & his expulsion order for missionaries was in 1587. 2nd
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Nobunaga's quarrel with the monks had 0 to do with Buddhism but with monks amassing military power & blocking his expansionism. For most of
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Japanese history including now the 2 religions syncretized. There was an outburst of anti Buddhist feeling under kokugaku influence @ start
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of Meiji but it soon subsided, that's an actual e.g. not Nobunaga going after militarized monks. Hideyoshi/Japanese didn't need Dutch & were
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far more aware of Xtian actions abroad than the Jesuits thought as this shows https://twitter.com/Rjrasva/status/661056374713925633 … U r probably thinking of Will Adams &
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Dutch in relation to Ieyasu NOT Hideyoshi. Yes Ieyasu acquired info about things like Protestanism vs Catholicism from them but there is 0
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evidence to show that he would have let Xtianity go on without their influence. He waited a while before dealing with Xtians as he was busy
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consolidating Tokugawa rule & didn't want all the Xtian daimyo arrayed against him in Sekigahara. The arrival of Dutch also solved another
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