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Holy Empire of Nipon

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A map I did for the 56th round of the Map of the Fortnight contest over on alternatehistory.com, which I kinda won (it was a tie). And here's the description!

"In 1549 the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier and his associates arrived in Japan and are welcomed in the Niponese capital city of Kioto after a slightly troublesome period in Kiushiu. Through his charismatic appearance his reputation spread, so he was allowed to speak to the Emperor on Christmas Eve 1549 [1]. 

Emperor Tomohito / Go-Nara was fascinated by the Portuguese man and welcomed his preaching after many converted nobles offered increased support for the impoverished emperor. In the following years Protestant missionaries entered the country, the number of Christians in Nipon grew steadily. 

So it came that in 1622 Emperor Ayahito announced his controversial conversion to Roman Catholicism, thus making Nipon a Christian nation. In the still mostly Shintoist north of Nipon various nobles banded together and formed the Kawabe Shogunate, which aligned itself with the late Ming Dynasty, later with the Qing and the Russians. The Kawabe Shogunate would become a safe haven for the remaining Niponese Shinto devotees.

[1] The POD, ladies and gentlemen! Xavier did not reach the emperor in OTL and since he has here the imperial reaction to Christians in much more open."
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zalezsky's avatar
Love the "for student / teacher's use" xD