Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650

Contents
	Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction
	Re-visioning women in Christian-Century Japan
	Organization
Part 1. Nuns
	Preface to Part 1
	2 Hibiya Monica (c. 1549-c. 1577): Virgem of Sakai
	Monica the Virgem
	Kirishitan marriage
	Kidnapping of Monica
	Conversion from Ikkôshû
	Women and salvation
	3 Naitō Julia (c. 1566-28 March 1627): Superiora
	Conversion from Jödoshü
	From Buddhist abbess to Kirishitan superiora
	Active apostola te vs. enclosure
	Expulsion
	4 The Beatas of Manila (1615-1656): Visionaries
	Visionaries
	Jödo and heaven
	Epilogue to Part 1
Part 2. Witches
	Preface to Part 2
	5 Ōtomo-Nata Jezebel (d. 15 February 1587): Priestess of Hachiman
	Sebastiäo, Esteväo and Simäo Incidents: 1575-1577
	Daughter of Nata, Shinto high priestess
	6 Marriage and Divorce in Catholic Japan: Ōtomo Sōrin and His Marital Conflict
	Sörin and his multiple marriages
	De Japponensium Matrimonio
	Jezebel\'s case
	7 Jezebel the Witch
	The Jesuits and Shinto-Buddhist religious women
	Spirit-possession
	Witch, the spirit of the age
	8 Jezebel versus the Church (1577-1587)
	Broken spell
	Death, memories and legacies
	Epilogue to Part 2
Part 3. Women Catechists
	Preface to Part 3
	9 Hosokawa Tama Gracia (1563-25 August 1600): Scholar-Teacher
	Tama Gracia a scholar
	Conversion from Zen
	Women and Zen
	10 The Women Catechists
	Kiyohara Ito Maria (n. d.)
	Catarina of Tanba (c. 1515-c. 1587)
	Kyögoku Maria (c. 1543-1618)
	Kyakujin Magdalena (d. 1600)
	11 Tama Gracia in the Network of Women Against Abuse
	Tama Gracia, an abused wife
	The Japanese legends
	Women caught in domestic violence and pastoral advice
	Fróis’ later writings on Tama Gracia
	New questions on a heroine\'s death
	The Imitation of Christ
	12 Releasing Kirishitan Women Apostles from Captivity
	Transformed Tadaoki?
	Calming the spirit
	Tama Gracia and her children
	Long memorial services
	Removing Tama Gracia from obscurity
	Kirishitan women apostles and the end of Christian Century
	Epilogue to Part 3
Part 4. Sisters
	Preface to Part 4
	13 Justa of Nagasaki and the Sisters of the Misericòrdia
	Women’s apostatate in Japanese confrarias
	Praxis of the Misericòrdia and women
	1)	Women teachers of children
	2)	Women and hospital care
	3)	Performative rituals
	Women\'s Confraria and the end of the Nagasaki Misericòrdia
	14 Elder Women of the Marian Confrarias
	Exemplary elder women
	St Mary, the exemplary disciplinarian mother
	Kakure Kirishitan women apostles?
	Epilogue to Part 4
	Conclusion
	Glossary
	Bibliography
	Index