This 1617 German-language compilation includes a translation of Amati’s “Historia del region di Voxu…” as well as descriptions of many other Franciscan missions around the world at that time. I publish here a tiny autobiographical fragment from the end of Amati’s “To Future Readers.”

This 1986 classic manga biography of Masamune Date has been reissued by Kodansha, in Japanese. I am providing here a page-by-page translation.

This is the moving testimony of the last large-scale martyrdom in Oshu during Date Masamune’s lifetime.

A souvenir pamphlet describing the triumphal procession across Rome of pictured Ambassador “Sir Philip Francis Faxecura” on October 29, 1615.

Luis Sotelo’s letters from prison, written before his martyrdom in 1623, provide not only additional history for the Keicho Mission but also offer a look into his spirtual vision for Japan.

Scipione Amati’s eyewitness account of the Keicho Mission’s journey from Madrid to Rome, with Fr. Luis Sotelo’s narration of all that came before.