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Anjirō (アンジロー) or Yajirō (弥次郎, ヤジロウ), baptized as Paulo de Santa Fé, was the first recorded Japanese Christian, who lived in the 16th century. After committing

named Anjirō. Anjirō had heard of Francis in 1545 and had travelled from Kagoshima to Malacca to meet him. Having been charged with murder, Anjirō had fled

ship Erasmus and its surviving crew is blown ashore by a violent storm at Anjiro on the east coast of Japan, Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, the ship's English

make it to Anjiro, which is safer. Toranaga elevates Blackthorne to the samurai rank of hatamoto and gifts him a consort, Fujiko. In Anjiro, Blackthorne

Sabotsy Anjiro is a rural municipality that is composed by two towns (Sabotsy & Anjiro) in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Moramanga, which is

orthography. It was developed around 1548 by a Japanese Catholic named Anjirō. The Latin alphabet is used to write the following: Latin-alphabet acronyms

Portuguese orthography. It was developed c. 1548 by a Japanese Catholic named Anjirō.[citation needed] Jesuit priests used the system in a series of printed

Malacca in December 1547, Francisco Xavier met Anjirō. A former samurai on the run for murder, Anjirō had heard about Xavier's work and left Japan specifically

since 1543, welcomed by local daimyōs because they imported gunpowder. Anjirō, a Japanese convert, helped the Jesuits understanding Japanese culture and

Islands. In 1549, Pinto left Kagoshima accompanied by a Japanese fugitive, Anjirō. He returned to Japan with Saint Francis Xavier, a Catholic missionary.