Glossary: Oomura Sumitada

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Oomura Sumitada (大村純忠)
1533 - 1587

Also known as: childhood—Shodomaru (勝童丸), baptized—Don Batholomeo

A Sengoku daimyo who was known throughout Japan for being the first daimyo to convert to Christianity after Jesuit missionaries arrived in Nagasaki. He opened the port of Nagasaki to foreign trade.