Background
Yoshiyasu Ogawa was born in 1831.
Yoshiyasu Ogawa was born in 1831.
In 1869 Ogawa Yoshiyasu was baptized and became an elder of the Yokohama Kaigan (Seaside) Church (1872). Collaborated with Masatsuna Okuno in a translation of the Bible. He was ordained the first Japanese minister in Yokohama in 1887.