There was so much instability in Japan at this time, according to Nelson, that it was not difficult for the Christians to simply move around and find places (like in Nobunaga's realm) where they could spread the word of Christianity. "Japan…is always revolving like a wheel; for he who today is a great lord, may be a penniless nobody tomorrow" (Boxer 1951: 74; Nelson 98). Nelson (99) points out that Nobunaga like the anti-Buddhist attitude of the missionaries; however, he also notes that the historian George Sansom argued that Nobunaga did not hate Buddhism, he simply did not like the way that it managed to interfere in political matters. Some Buddhists sects came to be wary of Christians because of Nobunaga's liking for them; it was the fact that Nobunaga thought that the Christians knew their place and the Buddhist monks did not that was the main difference for Nobunaga's like for one and contempt for another.
Nelson (99) suggests that, with a lot of effort on the Jesuits' part, Christianity was slowly and surely making its way into mainstream Japan, however, Nelson states that "it is doubtful they [the missionaries] ever really trusted their converts' religious beliefs. This was probably even confused more by the fact that Xavier had to rely upon Yajiro, a translator who worked for him, who had to use Buddhist vocabulary or terms in order to convey Christian ideas and beliefs to the Japanese (100). Nelson (99) points out that this made it very likely that Christianity was just seen as another sect of Buddhism. There is no doubt then why the missionaries would doubt their converts' religious beliefs as it seems that they were apparently being instructed on Buddhist tenets if the vocabulary used was one associated with Buddhism.
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