[1][3] During the final years of Sumitada's reign, Coelho encouraged a wave of Buddhist and Shinto temple destruction in the domain.
[5] Following his appointment as superior, Coelho commissioned the building of a fusta warship for the Jesuits in Nagasaki, financed by local Portuguese merchants and crewed by Japanese Christians.
[10] This made Hideyoshi aware that Coelho may potentially create an axis of Christian domains with allegiance to a foreign religion.
After consulting with some of his advisors, Hideyoshi had Coelho roused in the middle of the night and asked a series of questions concerning the intentions of the mission.
Coelho responded as best he could, but the next morning Hideyoshi issued an edict ordering all Jesuits to leave Japan within twenty days.