# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anjiro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:20:14.772Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anjiro"
name: "Anjirō"
slug: "anjiro"
description: "Anjirō (アンジロー) or Yajirō , baptized as Paulo de Santa Fé, was the first recorded Japanese Christian, who lived in the 16th century. After committing a murder in his home domain of Satsuma in southern Kyushu, he fled to Portuguese Malacca and he sought out Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552) and returned to Japan with him as an interpreter. Along with Xavier, Anjirō returned to Japan with two other Jesuits, two Japanese companions, and a Chinese companion who had been baptized to Catholicism to form the first Jesuit mission to Japan."
tagline: "Japanese translator"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Anjir%C5%8D_and_Francis_Xavier.jpg/330px-Anjir%C5%8D_and_Francis_Xavier.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1512"
deathDate: "1550"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.47
  momentum:             1.30952380952381
  historical:           12.99320666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Андзіро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "انچيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yajir%C5%8D"
    title: "Yajirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Anjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Anjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Anjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Anjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Anjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6"
    title: "ヤジロウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%88%EC%A7%80%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "안지로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Anjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yajir%C5%8D"
    title: "Yajirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angir%C3%B3"
    title: "Angiró"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Андзиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%B0%D1%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Јаџиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705860"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump