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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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : London :
Ashgate ; For the Hakluyt Society,
2012.
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| Series: | Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ;
3rd ser., no. 25. |
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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.