Japan: The Tensho Japanese Embassy to Europe, in 1586. Top, from left to right: Juliao Nakaura, Father Mesquita, Mancio Ito. Bottom, from left to right: Martinao Hara, Miguel Chijiwa. 'Newe Zeyttung aus der Insel Japonien', Augsburg, 1586

The Tensho embassy, named after the Tensho Era (1573-1592) in which the embassy took place, was an embassy sent by the Japanese Christian Lord Otomo Sorin to the Pope and the kings of Europe in 1582.

The embassy was led by Mancio Ito (Ito Mansho, 1570–1612), a Japanese nobleman, who was the first official Japanese emissary to Europe.

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