Portugal and the Japan
Title | Portugal and the Japan PDF eBook |
Author | João Paulo Oliveira e Costa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Discoveries in geography |
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Portugal, Jesuits and Japan
Title | Portugal, Jesuits and Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Louise Weston |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Art, Japanese |
ISBN | 9781892850201 |
Catalog of an exhibition of the same name held at the McMullen museum of Art, Boston College, Feb. 16-June 2, 2013.
The Relations Between Portugal and Japan
Title | The Relations Between Portugal and Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Kiichi Matsuda |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN |
Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan
Title | Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Olof G. Lidin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2003-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135788715 |
The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Other Portuguese soon followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. After the merchants came the first missionary Francis Xavier in 1549, beginning the Christian century in Japan. This is not a new story, but it is the first time that Japanese, Portuguese and other European accounts have been brought together and presented in English. Their arrival was recorded by the Japanese in Tanegashima kafu, the Teppoki and the Kunitomo teppoki, here translated and presented together with European reports. Includes maps, and Portuguese and Japanese illustrations.
The Affair of the Madre de Deus
Title | The Affair of the Madre de Deus PDF eBook |
Author | C Boxer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2010-10-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136907270 |
The fact that the Portuguese opened up the Far East to European maritime enterprise is well known, but the prosperity to which their trade attained in that region is less so, as historians have tended to dwell on the English or Dutch activities. The period of Luso-Japanese trade is therefore of interest in more ways than one, and in particular the first decade of the seventeenth century when Japan was being moulded by Tokugawa Iyeyasu and when the country was still open to foreigners regardless of their race or religion. This volume involved considerable research in four languages and most of the information is here presented to the English reader for the first time.
The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590
Title | The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cooper |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2021-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004213759 |
Following the pioneering work of Francis Xavier in establishing Christianity in Japan, his successor Alessandro Valignano, decided to send a legation to Europe representing the three Christian daimyo of Kyushu, southern Japan. It consisted of two Christian samurai boys who were chosen as legates, together with two teenage companions. The group set sail from Nagasaki in February 1582 and were to be away for eight years. The purpose of the mission was twofold: it would give Europeans the chance of seeing Japanese people at first hand and appreciating their culture, thereby publicising the work of the Catholic Church in Japan and so (it was hoped) increase much-needed financial support; and secondly on their return to Japan the envoys would give eyewitness reports of the splendours of Renaissance Europe, thus moderating Japanese notions about the outside world and foreign barbarians. The boys travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy and were feted wherever they went. In Venice, the authorities even postponed the annual festival in honour of St Mark, the city’s patron, so that the Japanese might view the spectacle. More importantly, the boys met Philip II of Spain several times, as well as Pope Gregory XIII and his successor Sixtus V. This is the first book-length study in English of the mission and provides important new insights into the work of the Jesuits in Japan and the nature of the legation’s impact on late-sixteenth-century European perceptions of Japan.
A Portuguese Embassy to Japan (1644-1647)
Title | A Portuguese Embassy to Japan (1644-1647) PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Ralph Boxer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Japan |
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