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  title info:
    title: Japanese travellers in sixteenth-century Europe
    sub title: a dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)
  title info:
    title: Dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)
  title info:
    title: De missione legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam curiam. English
  name:
    name part: Sande, Duarte de
    name part: 1531-1600
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Massarella, Derek
    name part: 1950-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 481 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys, two of whom represented important Christian daimyo in western Japan, to Europe. This book is an account of their travels. The boys left Japan on 20 February 1582 and disembarked in Lisbon on 11 August 1584. They then travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy as far as Rome, the highpoint of their journey, before returning to Lisbon to begin the long voyage home on 13 April 1586. They reached Nagasaki on 21 July 1590, amidst great rejoicing, more than eight years after their departure. During their travels in Europe they had audiences and less formal meetings with Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal, and with popes Gregory XIII and Sixtus V, and were received by many of the most important political, ecclesiastical and social figures in the places they visited. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. The embassy was an integral part of Valignano's strategy for advancing the Jesuit mission in Japan. The boys chosen were intended to personify Jesuit success in Japan, raise awareness of Japan in Europe amongst the clerical and secular elites, and demonstrate conclusively that what the Jesuits had been writing about Japan since their arrival there in 1549 was not a fabrication. The embassy was further intended to impress upon the boys the glory, unity, stability and splendour of Christian Europe, so that they might report favourably about their experiences on their return, and counter what Valignano believed were the negative impressions of Europe left by Portuguese merchants and seamen in Japan. As part of this plan, a book consisting of thirty-four colloquia detailing the boys' travels was compiled and translated into Latin under Valignano's supervision. It was published in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. Valignano a…
  table of contents: A note on currency -- Romanization of Japanese and Chinese names -- Introduction: Background to De Missione -- Objectives of the Embassy and the individuals chosen -- Publication of De Missione -- Authorship of De Missione -- Sources of De Missione -- Contextualizing De Missione -- Evaluating De Missione and the Tensho embassy -- The boys after their return to Japan -- Conclusion -- Text: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia: Imprimatur -- Nihil obstat -- Alessandro Valignan of the Society of Jesus to the pupils of the Japanese seminaries -- Duarte de Sande to Claudio Aquaviva, Superior General of the Society of Jesus -- Contents of these Colloquia -- Colloquium I-XXXIV -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: edited and annotated with an introduction by Derek Massarella ; translated by J.F. Moran.
  note: Translation of: Sande, Duarte de. De missione legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam curiam. (Macao : Societas Iesu, 1590).
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-470) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Tenshō Kenʼō Shisetsu, 1582-1590
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jesuits
    geographic: Japan
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Catholic Church
    geographic: Japan
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jesuits
    topic: Missions
    geographic: Japan
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Description and travel
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Valignano, Alessandro
      name part: 1538-1606
  classification: BR1305 .S313 2012
  classification: BX1668 .S2613 2012
  classification: G161 .H2 3rd ser. no.25
  classification: 327.520456/3409031
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 3rd ser., no. 25
  identifier: 9781908145031 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 190814503X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781409452645 (ebook)
  identifier: 1409452646 (ebook)
  identifier: 2012026020
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120725
    record change date: 20151205115408.0
    record identifier: in00003338014
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng