Naitō Joan
Naitō Joan, son of Matsunaga Nagayori, was a Japanese samurai and lord of Yagi Castle. Earlier called, Naitō Tadatoshi, he was baptised into the Catholic Church in 1564 and took the name Joan. He was the brother of a famous woman catechist, Naitō Julia. Following the shogunate’s anti-Christian edict of 1614 he was banished to Manila and died there in 1626.
