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Author Frois SJ, Luis

Title The First European Description of Japan, 1585 : a Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Japan anthropology workshop series.
Summary 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, reli
Notes Print version record
Subject Civilization
Manners and customs
Travel
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1568-1600 -- Early works to 1800
Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1185-1600 -- Early works to 1800
Japan -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069399
Europe -- Civilization -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800
Europe -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800
Subject Europe
Japan
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Reff, Daniel T
Danford, Richard
ISBN 9781317917816
1317917812