The First European Description of Japan, 1585 - Couverture souple

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Frois SJ, Luis

 
9781138643321: The First European Description of Japan, 1585
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138643327 ISBN 13 : 9781138643321
Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War. The book provides a translation of the text, which is not a continuous narrative, but rather more than 600 distichs or brief couplets on subjects such as gender, child rearing, religion, medicine, eating, horses, writing, ships and seafaring, architecture, and music and drama. In addition, the book includes a substantive introduction and other editorial material to explain the background and also to make comparisons with present-day Japanese life. Overall, the book represents an important primary source for understanding a particularly challenging period of history and its connection to contemporary Europe and Japan.

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À propos de l?auteur

Luis Frois S.J. was a long-time Jesuit missionary in Japan in the later years of the sixteenth century.

Daniel T. Reff is an anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies in the Humanities, The Ohio State University, USA

Richard Danford is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Vice-President for Diversity and Inclusion at Marietta College, Ohio, USA

Robin Gill is a freelance translator, author and editor, USA

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138643327
ISBN 13 
9781138643321
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Éditeur
Reff Daniel T., Danford Richard
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
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Allemagne

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9780415727570: The First European Description of Japan, 1585

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  041572757X ISBN 13 :  9780415727570
Editeur : Routledge, 2014
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