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Mancio Ito (Japanese伊東 マンショ, Itō Mansho; * 1570 as Sukemasu Itō (伊 东 佑 益), † 1612) was a Japanese nobleman and the first official Japanese envoys to Europe.
The idea of sending a Japanese embassy to Europe, was originally adopted by the Jesuit Alessandro Valignano and supported by the three Christian daimyo Omura Sumitada, Ōtomo Sorin and Arima Harunobu. Ito Mancio was selected to act as spokesman for the Ōtomo of Sorin, the most powerful daimyo in the province of Bungo on Kyushu and close relatives of Mancios father, Itō Shurinosuke (伊 东 佑 青), selected group. On February 20, 1582 Ito Nagasaki left, accompanied by three other nobles:
- Miguel Chijiwa (千 々 石 ミゲル, Chijiwa Migeru )
- Julião Nakaura (中浦 ジュリアン, Nakaura Jurian )
- Martinao Hara (原 マルチノ, Hara Maruchino )
They were accompanied by two servants and their tutor and translator Diego de Mesquita. Your mentor Valignano accompanied only up to Goa in India, where he took on new tasks. On their way to Lisbon, where they arrived in August 1584 she spent nine months with visits to Macau, Cochin and Goa. From Lisbon, the Ambassador traveled to Rome, the main goal of their journey. There was Mancio Ito freeman and recorded ( " the Golden Spur Knight" ) in the ranks of the European nobility with the title Cavaliere di SPERoN d' oro. During their stay in Europe, they met with King Philip II of Spain, Francesco I de ' Medici; Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pope Gregory XIII. and his successor Pope Sixtus V together.
The ambassadors met on July 21, 1590 again in Japan. For her eight -year journey they had been encouraged to make records. These formed the basis for the work De Missione Legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam curiam ( " About the Mission of the Japanese Leganten to the Roman Curia " ), which was published in Macao by the Jesuit Duarte de Sande 1590. The four were ever ordained in the wake of Alessandro Valignano than the first four Japanese Jesuitenpadres.