小西行長

Konishi Yukinaga (1555–1600), baptized Agostinho, was among the most remarkable Christian daimyo of the Sengoku period. A merchant's son who rose to govern Uto in Higo Province under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he led the vanguard of the first Korean invasion in 1592, reaching Hanseong (Seoul) in under twenty days. But Yukinaga was a diplomat at heart — he secretly negotiated a false peace with Ming China, telling Hideyoshi the Ming had accepted terms while telling the Ming that Hideyoshi would withdraw. When the deception was exposed in 1596, the disastrous second invasion followed. At Sekigahara he fought for the Western Army; captured in the mountains of Ibuki, he refused to take his own life (prohibited by his faith) and was beheaded on October 1, 1600. His life embodies the collision between Christian peace ethics and the samurai warrior code — faith and the sword held in the same hands.