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082 00 327.520456/3409031|223
100 1 Sande, Duarte de,|d1531-1600
240 10 De missione legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam curiam.
|lEnglish
245 10 Japanese travellers in sixteenth-century Europe :|ba
dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese
ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590) /|cedited and
annotated with an introduction by Derek Massarella ;
translated by J.F. Moran
246 30 Dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese
ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)
260 Farnham, Surrey, England ;|aBurlington, VT :|bAshgate ;
|aLondon :|bFor the Hakluyt Society,|cc2012
300 xxii, 481 p. :|bill., maps ;|c25 cm
490 1 Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ;|vthird series, no.
25
500 Translation of: Sande, Duarte de. De missione legatorum
Iaponensium ad Romanam curiam. (Macao : Societas Iesu,
1590)
504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-470) and index
505 0 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
520 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 11 August 1584. They then
travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy as far as Rome,
the highpoint of their journey, before returning to Lisbon
to begin the long voyage home on 13 April 1586. They
reached Nagasaki on 21 July 1590, amidst great rejoicing,
more than eight years after their departure. During their
travels in Europe they had audiences and less formal
meetings with Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal, and
with popes Gregory XIII and Sixtus V, and were received by
many of the most important political, ecclesiastical and
social figures in the places they visited. Until the
arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese
encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans
going to Japan. The embassy was an integral part of
Valignano's strategy for advancing the Jesuit mission in
Japan. The boys chosen were intended to personify Jesuit
success in Japan, raise awareness of Japan in Europe
amongst the clerical and secular elites, and demonstrate
conclusively that what the Jesuits had been writing about
Japan since their arrival there in 1549 was not a
fabrication. The embassy was further intended to impress
upon the boys the glory, unity, stability and splendour of
Christian Europe, so that they might report favourably
about their experiences on their return, and counter what
Valignano believed were the negative impressions of Europe
left by Portuguese merchants and seamen in Japan. As part
of this plan, a book consisting of thirty-four colloquia
detailing the boys' travels was compiled and translated
into Latin under Valignano's supervision. It was published
in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm
Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. Valignano anticipated that
it would become a standard text in Jesuit seminaries in
Japan. The present edition is the first complete version
of this rich, complex and impressive work to appear in
English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations of
the mission, and an introduction discussing its context
and the subsequent reception of the book
600 10 Valignano, Alessandro,|d1538-1606
610 20 Jesuits|zJapan|xHistory|y16th century|vSources
610 20 Catholic Church|zJapan|xHistory|y16th century
610 20 Jesuits|xMissions|zJapan|xHistory|y16th century
650 0 Tenshō Kenʼō Shisetsu, 1582-1590
651 0 Japan|xRelations|zEurope
651 0 Europe|xRelations|zJapan
651 0 Europe|xDescription and travel|vEarly works to 1800
700 1 Massarella, Derek,|d1950-
830 0 Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ;|v3rd ser., no. 25
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