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João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan
Author | : Michael Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472460660 |
João Rodrigues sailed from Portugal to Japan in 1577, and there entered the Jesuit novitiate and was ordained priest. He met Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the virtual ruler of Japan, in 1591, and from that time became the missionaries' spokesman in dealings with Japanese authorities. He was also involved in negotiations concerning the bulk sale of Chinese silk in Japan, and commercial and political rivalries led to his eventual expulsion from the country in 1610. Rodrigues spent the rest of his life in Macao and the interior of China, dying in 1633. Renowned for his fluency in spoken Japanese, Rodrigues earned a place in the history of Japanese-European cultural relations by publishing a Portuguese grammar of the Japanese language (Nagasaki, 1604-1608), followed by a revised edition (Macao, 1620). Both works provide valuable information about Japanese spoken in the early 17th century. Rodrigues also provided the draft used as a basis for the official history of the Christian mission in Japan. To set this work in context he composed two books on various aspects of Japanese life - geography, customs, clothing, science, architecture, art, and, above all, the tea ceremony. The present volume provides annotated translations of these two books, together with an introduction assessing Rodrigues's contribution to the understanding of Japanese life and culture in the early 17th century.
This Island of Japan
Author | : Michael Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Civilization, to 1600 |
ISBN | : |
This Island of Japan
Author | : Michael Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Civilization, to 1600 |
ISBN | : |
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Author | : Derek Massarella |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 697 |
Release | : 2013-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 140947223X |
In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings. It was published in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. The present edition is the first complete version of this rich, complex and impressive work to appear in English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations of the mission, and an introduction discussing its context and the subsequent reception of the book.
Rodrigues the Interpreter
Author | : Michael Cooper |
Publisher | : Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Chronicles the life of Jesuit João Rodrigues (1558-1633), who spent more than half his life in Japan and China. Rodrigues won the friendship of Japan's two succesive supreme rulers, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu; took an active role in the silk trade between China and Japan; and, serving as the principle interpreter between East and West, was for some years the most influential European in the entire country.
The First European Description of Japan, 1585
Author | : Luis Frois SJ |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2014-03-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317917804 |
In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War. The book provides a translation of the text, which is not a continuous narrative, but rather more than 600 distichs or brief couplets on subjects such as gender, child rearing, religion, medicine, eating, horses, writing, ships and seafaring, architecture, and music and drama. In addition, the book includes a substantive introduction and other editorial material to explain the background and also to make comparisons with present-day Japanese life. Overall, the book represents an important primary source for understanding a particularly challenging period of history and its connection to contemporary Europe and Japan.