In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings.
In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings.
Derek Massarella is Professor of History in the Faculty of Economics, Chuo University, Tokyo, where he has taught since 1981. His research interests include early modern European-Asian relations, the history of globalization, and seventeenth-century English history. He is the author of A World Elsewhere: Europe's Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1990), co-editor of The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (1995), and has contributed to a number of other books and scholarly publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the International Representative, Japan, for the Hakluyt Society. The late Joseph Moran taught at a number of universities in Britain and Japan. He was Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Stirling from 1991 until his retirement in 1996. In addition to the history of the Jesuit mission in Japan, his research interests included the history of the Japanese language. He was the author of The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in Sixteenth Century Japan (1993), and a number of scholarly articles on the Japanese language and Jesuit history.
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Contents: Preface 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.
Contents: Preface 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.
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