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The Japanese and the Jesuits Alessandro Valignano in Sixteenth Century Japan
252 Pages
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Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Japanese and the Jesuits examines the attempt by sixteenth century Jesuits to convert the Japanese to Christianity. Directing the Jesuits was the Italian Alessandro Valignano, whose own magisterial writings, many of them not previously translated or published, are the principle source material for this account of one of the most remarkable of all meetings between East and West. Valignano... Read more
Chapter 1 Orientation; Chapter 2 The ambassadors; Chapter 3 The Visitor; Chapter 4 Full and complete information; Chapter 5 Ships and sealing-wax; Chapter 6 The enterprise; Chapter 7 Friars from the Philippines; Chapter 8 High and low; Chapter 9 The alms from the China ship; Chapter 10 Rich and poor; Chapter 11 The press; Chapter 12 Japanese Jesuits; Chapter 13 The Japanese language; Chapter 14 Conclusion;
Biography
J.F. Moran has taught at the Universities of Hiroshima, Sheffield, Tsukuba, Yamaguchi, Oxford and Tokyo. His Oxford doctorate is on the history of the Japanese language, and he has published textbooks of English for Japanese students, and learned articles on Japanese language and Jesuit history. J.F.Moran is now head of the Department of Japanese at Stirling University.
`This is a necessary book for all students of this fascinating period of Japanese history.' - Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Proceedings of the Japan Society
