Mantua. July Verona. July 25 Milan. August 8 Genoa. August 16 Barcelona. September Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey. Monzón. Zaragoza. Return via Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Vila Viçosa, Évora. Coimbra. 1586 April 8 Depart Lisbon for return. 1587 May 29 Reached Goa, reunited with Valignano. 1590 July 21 Arrival in Japan See also Bernardo the Japanese, the first Japanese to visit Europe, in 1553. Hasekura Tsunenaga, another Japanese embassy to Europe in 1615. Notes References Boxer, C.R. The Christian Century in Japan 1549–1650 Cooper, Michael. The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590 (Kent: Global Oriental, 2005). Iwao Seiichi. Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History (Tokyo 1978) Lach, Donald F. Asia in the Making of Europe, Vol. 1, Book 2 (Chicago: U of Chicago P., 1965), 688–701. Massarella, Derek. "The Japanese Embassy to Europe (1582–1590)," Journal of the Hakluyt Society (Feb. 2013), 1-12. The World and Japan: the embassies of Tensho and Keicho (世界と日本：天正と慶長の使節 ), Sendai City Museum, 1995. External links Spiritual saga, the Japanese mission to Europe, by Michael Cooper History of the foreign relations of Japan Holy See–Japan relations Japan–Portugal relations Italy–Japan relations Jesuit Asia missions Catholic Church in Japan Japanese embassies to the West Ambassadors to Spain Japan–Spain relations