Japan: Oda Nagamasu (1548 - 24 January 1622), Late Sengoku-Early Edo Period daimyo. Hanging scroll painting, 1622. Oda Nagamasu, childhood name Gengorō and also known as Yūraku or Urakusai, was a Japanese daimyo who lived from the late Sengoku period through the early Edo period. A brother of Oda Nobunaga. Nagamasu converted to Christianity in 1588 and took the baptismal name of John. Nagamasu was an accomplished practitioner of the tea ceremony, which he studied under the master, Sen no Rikyū. He eventually started his own school of the tea ceremony.

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