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In the sixth month of 1587 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a day after an edict limiting the spread of Christianity, ordered the missionaries (padres) out of Japan within twenty days, calling Japan the country of the gods and their teaching false. The same edict let the Portuguese and Spanish ships go on trading.
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- SourcesRECORD — Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Expulsion of Missionaries and Limitation on the Propagation of Christianity (1587), in D. J. Lu, Japan: A Documentary History (1997), via Columbia University, Asia for Educators · checked 19 September: Toyotomi Hideyoshi's two edicts of 1587, trans. in D. J. Lu, Japan: A Documentary History (1997), pp. 196-97, Columbia University Asia for Educators PDF (full text read)
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