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Japanese travellers in sixteenth-century Europe : a dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590) /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sande, Duarte de, 1531-1600
Other Authors: Massarella, Derek, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : London : Ashgate ; For the Hakluyt Society, 2012.
Series:Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 3rd ser., no. 25.
Subjects:
Tenshō Kenʼō Shisetsu, 1582-1590.
Japan > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Relations > Japan.
Jesuits > Japan > History > 16th century > Sources.
Catholic Church > Japan > History > 16th century.
Jesuits > Missions > Japan > History > 16th century.
Europe > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Valignano, Alessandro, > 1538-1606.

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