A celebrated daimyo stands immortal in the middle of a plaza in the busy Paco district of Manila.
The statue in Plaza Dilao is a representation of Takayama Ukon, Â鶹´«Ã½ best-known Christian daimyo. Takayama was banished from Japan and fled to the Philippines in 1614 for refusing to disavow his Christian faith.
According to one scholarly work, Takayama occupies an ¡°enduring and crucial place in the history of the Japanese Church.¡±
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