Joam Yama [SEP] date of death
Joam Yama
Joam Yama (1566? – 29 September 1633) was a Japanese Jesuit born in Tsu Province, at the center of Japan’s main island. He served as the cleric of the Church of Yanagawa in Chikugo Province in Kyusyu. He was deported to Portuguese Macau in 1614, but six years later returned to Japan. He engaged in missionary work primarily in Oshu with Joam Mattheus Adami, a priest. However, he was captured in Aizu and sent to Edo (now Tokyo) in 1629, and was
Province, where he engaged in missionary work for seven years with Joam Yama, a monk. His Japanese language abilities improved. After the Edo government proclaimed the Anti-Christian Edicts in 1612, Adami was deported to Macau in November 1614. Yama was also exiled to Macau.
Return to Japan.
Adami return to Amakusa in Kyushu, Japan, in July 1618, with several Japanese monks and remained in Oyano (now Kami-Amakusa) until 1619. However, persecution in Kyushu had become so severe that he