Portuguese Merchants and Missionaries in Feudal Japan, 1543-1640

ISBN-13: 9780860781806 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 344 str.

C. R. Boxer

Opis

The relationship between God and Mammon forms a recurring theme in this volume, the third collection of Professor Boxer's articles to be published by Variorum.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The affair of the 'Madre de Deus' (A chapter in the history of the Portuguese in Japan); The swan-song of the Portuguese in Japan, 1635-1639; Portuguese commercial voyages to Japan three hundred years ago (1630-1639); Hosokawa Tadaoki and the Jesuits, 1587-1645; Some aspects of Portuguese influence in Japan, 1542-1640; Padre João Rodriguez Tçuzu, S.J., and his Japanese grammars of 1604 and 1620; Friar Juan Pobre of Zamora and his lost and found 'Ystoria' of 1598-1603 (Lilly MS. MB 617); The Japanese Christians of Faifo and the transference of Fr. Pedro de Zúñiga's relics to Manila in 1651; When the twain first met: European conceptions and misconceptions of Japan, 16th-18th centuries; Index.