page_title: Hasekura Tsunenaga
section_title: Keichō Embassy
hierarchical_section_title: Hasekura Tsunenaga / Keichō Embassy
caption_attribution_description: Hasekura, resting his head in his hand, is shown discussion with the Franciscan translator Louis Sotelo in the Sala Regia of the Palazzo Quirinale, Rome.
context_page_description: Hasekura Tsunenaga was a Japanese samurai and diplomat. He was the first diplomat from Japan to visit Spain, France, Italy and the Vatican.
  The Roman Senate made Hasekura a citizen and a patrician of Rome.
context_section_description: Hasekura headed a diplomatic mission from Japan to the Vatican. The trip lasted seven years from 1613-1620,  This historic journey is called the "Keichō Embassy" (慶長使節). Hasekura was the first Japanese ambassador in the Americas and in Europe. 
  Hasekura traveled with a group across the Pacific Ocean to Mexico. They sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
  Hasekura returned to Japan by crossing Mexico from east to west in 1618.  The Japanese sailed from Acapulco for the Philippines.  From Manila, they sailed north to Japan in 1620.
  The story of Hasekura was unknown in Japan until the 19th century. This early diplomacy not included in official histories written in Japan in the 17th and 18th centuries.  Information about this embassy
  Hasekura was a subject of interest in Europe.  In 1615, Scipione Amati published a book about Haskeura's journey.  In 1616, a book about the Japanese diplomats was published in French in Paris.
caption: Hasekura in a fresco in the Quirinal Palace
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