Nobunaga no Chef - Ch. 235 - A Clumsy Judgement

[MangaDex]

 

[Harouki]

Nobunaga isn’t the only one who is clumsy at helping people it seems.

And yeah, looks like it was just a massive inferiority complex that made him feel like he couldn’t keep going

 

[HDMI1]

Sure is smart of them to leave a critically important map uncovered so some random bird can fly by and take a shit on it.

 

[RomanTheNotARoman]

"The point where Japan realises it is a tiny island. Where all these warlords were fighting over single rice fields, meanwhile the people who trade with us have their own countries more fertile and larger than Japan"

 

[Grimmycoffee]

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What is the principle of "pure cultivation"?

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I thought religious factions also wield political power in western countries back then, is that not the case?

 

[fight2live]

Ken defeated Nobunaga

 

[sssr]

What is the principle of "pure cultivation"?

I thought religious factions also wield political power in western countries back then, is that not the case?

"Pure cultivation" is a translation of the Japanese translation of the principle of Purgative-Illuminative-Unitive philosophical mysticism that underlined the Society of Jesus missionary work in the 16th century. Unlike the other orders that supported direct colonization efforts by Catholic powers or gained converts by piggybacking on colonization missions (like the conquistadors), the Jesuits preferred to do direct missionary works by converting locals through non-coercive methods. This included establishing education facilities and monasteries and training up new Jesuit missionaries in-situ. The principle emphasizes spreading Jesuit monastic mysticism directly into the general Catholic populace (which would have interesting impact on Japanese converts later on) Jesuits ironically could do this precisely because of their independent pseudo-military organization.

While the orders did wield direct political power (not to mention the Catholic Church itself), by this time most of European Christendom were reeling from the aftereffects of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Church was at its lowest ebb of power in centuries. Pope Gregory XIII (of Gregorian Calendar fame) was busy weaponizing the Counter-Reformation started by the Council of Trent but had been forced by France and the HRE to accept reduction of Papal States "national" activities, in effect pushing the Church to stop acting like a feudal monarchy and politicking directly as if it were a national entity. Jesuits supported Gregory's reforms and generally tried to exercise politics in an advisory manner under established Catholic monarchs instead of the old pattern of raising feudal armies themselves to crusade against monarchs they had a problem with. However, the Donation of Nagasaki in effect made the Japanese branch of the Church theoretically the same kind of entity as the Ikko Ikki, in that Nagasaki could function like a Catholic Ishiyama Hongan-ji fortress-monastery.

Cabral, BTW, is being badly misrepresented in this manga. Cabral's problem with his local converts and the reason he insisted on not teaching them Latin or Portuguese was because he could see many of his Japanese monks start behaving like the Ikko Ikki. They were basically trying to establish themselves as politically powerful militant monks, but Catholic instead of Buddhist. In the Japanese mindset, conversion to Catholicism was probably viewed the same way as conversion into Jodo or Nichiren Buddhism. Takeda Shingen, for example, converted to Jodo primarily so he could obtain the support of the Ikko Ikki to checkmate Uesugi Kenshin and trap him in Echigo. Many Catholic daimyo probably converted with the same kind of motivation.