hideyoshi to coelho

He sent messengers this time to Padre Coelho demanding his immediate reply to the following for questions:

  1. Why do you missionaries so anxiously, even forcefully, try to make converts?
  2. Why do you destroy Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples and persecute monks instead of being conciliatory to them?
  3. Why do you do such unreasonable things as eat useful animals like horses and cows that serve people?
  4. Why do the Portuguese buy many Japanese and take them to their country as slaves?
  • Source: Japan’s Encounter With Christianity: The Catholic Mission in Pre- Modern Japan by Neil S. Fujita, p. 112