大友宗麟
The Tenshō embassy (Japanese: 天正の使節, named after the Tenshō Era in which the embassy took place) was an embassy sent by the Japanese Christian Lord Ōtomo Sōrin to the Pope and the kings of Europe in 1582. The embassy was led by Mancio Itō (伊東 マンショ "Itō Mansho", 1570–1612), a Japanese nobleman, who was the first official Japanese emissary to Europe.