1st Edition
Portuguese Merchants and Missionaries in Feudal Japan, 1543–1640
By C.R. Boxer
Copyright 1986
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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The relationship between God and Mammon forms a recurring theme in this volume, the third collection of Professor Boxer's articles to be published by Variorum. The previous two traced the Portuguese expansion through the Indian Ocean to South-East Asia, and in this one he moves on further, to the Far East, to deal with the China-Japan trade, based on the cities of Macao and Nagasaki. Yet there,... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The affair of the 'Madre de Deus' (A chapter in the history of the Portuguese in Japan); The swan-song of the Portuguese in Japan, 1635-1639; Portuguese commercial voyages to Japan three hundred years ago (1630-1639); Hosokawa Tadaoki and the Jesuits, 1587-1645; Some aspects of Portuguese influence in Japan, 1542-1640; Padre João Rodriguez Tçuzu, S.J., and his Japanese grammars of 1604 and 1620; Friar Juan Pobre of Zamora and his lost and found 'Ystoria' of 1598-1603 (Lilly MS. MB 617); The Japanese Christians of Faifo and the transference of Fr. Pedro de Zúñiga's relics to Manila in 1651; When the twain first met: European conceptions and misconceptions of Japan, 16th-18th centuries; Index.
Biography
C.R. Boxer
