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Joao Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan (Paperback)
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Joao Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan (Paperback)
Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Series
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Joao Rodrigues sailed from Portugal to Japan in 1577, and there
entered the Jesuit novitiate and was ordained priest. He met
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the virtual ruler of Japan, in 1591, and from
that time became the missionaries' spokesman in dealings with
Japanese authorities. He was also involved in negotiations
concerning the bulk sale of Chinese silk in Japan, and commercial
and political rivalries led to his eventual expulsion from the
country in 1610. Rodrigues spent the rest of his life in Macao and
the interior of China, dying in 1633. Renowned for his fluency in
spoken Japanese, Rodrigues earned a place in the history of
Japanese-European cultural relations by publishing a Portuguese
grammar of the Japanese language (Nagasaki, 1604-1608), followed by
a revised edition (Macao, 1620). Both works provide valuable
information about Japanese spoken in the early 17th century.
Rodrigues also provided the draft used as a basis for the official
history of the Christian mission in Japan. To set this work in
context he composed two books on various aspects of Japanese life -
geography, customs, clothing, science, architecture, art, and,
above all, the tea ceremony. The present volume provides annotated
translations of these two books, together with an introduction
assessing Rodrigues's contribution to the understanding of Japanese
life and culture in the early 17th century.
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