Whilst he was a personality of Ming China, in 1571 he was captured and taken prisoner by pirates, taken to the Satsuma region in Japan where Yoshihisa SHIMIZU took a liking to him became a court physician and settled down. |
中国・明の人物であったが、隆慶 (明)5年(和暦:元亀2年(1571年))倭寇に捕えられ捕虜として薩摩に連れてこられたところを島津義久に気に入られその侍医となりそのまま帰化した。 |