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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825102303321

Autore

Moran J. F (Joseph Francis), <1937->

Titolo

The Japanese and the Jesuits : Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan / / J.F. Moran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-88112-6

0-585-46153-8

1-280-11136-4

0-203-03633-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages) : maps

Disciplina

266.0092

266/.252/09031

952

Soggetti

Missionaries - Italy

Missionaries - Japan

Japan Church history To 1868

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; The Japanese and the Jesuits; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Notes; 1 Orientation; 2 The ambassadors; 3 The Visitor; 4 Full and complete information; 5 Ships and sealing-wax; 6 The enterprise; 7 Friars from the Philippines; 8 High and low; 9 The alms from the China ship; 10 Rich and poor; 11 The press; 12 Japanese Jesuits; 13 The Japanese language; 14 Conclusion; Appendix A How land is owned and income reckoned in Japan; Appendix B How and why we got the port of Nagasaki; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 arrived in Japan in 1579. In promoting Christianity, he always sought the support of the ruling classes, but an important part of his strategy was also to



have the missionaries adapt themselves