Background
Aikawa Yoshitake was born in 1613. An ancestor of the Aikawa Family in Hirahara in Iiizen Province (Nagasaki Prefecture), he formerly lived in Kai Province (Yamanashi Prefecture).
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Aikawa Yoshitake
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Career
He settled in Hizen when he came to Kyushu as a member of Hideyoshi Toyo- tomi’s expeditionary forces to Korea. He became a retainer of the Omura Clan and turned Christian.
Connections
His family moved to Himhara, where they founded a village. Practically all villagers of Hirahara were descendants of Yoshitake. The village preserved its Christian faith covertly in spite of the Shogunate’s prohibiton of Christianity.
