(1569? – January 23, 1633) was a member of the

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

ese delegation to European Christendom, also known as the

Tenshō embassy 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 ...

. Later, he abandoned the Christian faith. However, the recent discovery of a rosary in his graveyard made public on September 8, 2017, has cast doubt upon his apostasy.

In popular media

A "brother Michael" appears in the 1975 novel ''

Shōgun , officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamak ...

''. In its 1980 adaptation to TV, Michael is played by

Masumi Okada was a French-born Japanese actor, ''tarento'', and film producer. Early life Okada was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father and a Danish mother. His father, Minoru Okada, was an artist and his mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, was the siste ...

. In the 1996 Portuguese film '' Os Olhos da Ásia'', Miguel is played by Yasukiyo Umeno. In ''

Tenshō Kennō Shōnen Shisetsu Tensho may refer to: * Tenshō (Heian period) (天承), a Japanese era from 1131–1132 * Tenshō (Momoyama period) (天正), a Japanese era from 1573–1592 * Tensho (kata), a kata originating from Goju Ryu karate * (, born ), Japanese animati ...

'', Miguel is played by

Ryouta Murai is a Japanese actor best known for his roles as Kojirō in '' Fūma no Kojirō'', Kazuya Suzuki in '' Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka'', Takuya Yano in '' Osananajimi'' and Yusuke Onodera in ''Kamen Rider Decade''. Filmography TV seri ...

. In the 2019 miniseries ''MAGI Tensho Keno Shonen Shisetsu'', Miguel is played by Atsushi Ogata.

References

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