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JESUITICA & JAPONICA. Lettera annua del Giappone dell’anno M.D.XCVI
by FROES, Luis
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RARE JESUIT RELATION FROM C16TH JAPAN
FROES, Luis. Lettera annua del Giappone dell'anno M.D.XCVI
Padua, Appresso Francesco Bolzetta, 1599.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 124. Woodcut printer's device on -p, initials. Early ms. initials on t-p. Clean and bright throughout, only sporadic worm tracks to the blank margins. C17th limp vellum. An excellent copy.
This rare letter of Portuguese Jesuit missionary Froes, dated at Nagasaki December 13, 1596, is addressed to Padre Claudio Acquaviva, General of the Society. It was translated into Italian by another Jesuit, Francesco Mercati. The relation gives a detailed regional description of affairs in Japan in the 1590s, by which time the predominantly Jesuit Christian mission in Japan had made considerable progress. However, the position was one of great uncertainty, for by the mid 1590s, Franciscans had arrived from the Philippines and the Japanese felt that they were preparing the way for the conquest of Japan. Torn between their desire for trade and their distaste of the behaviour of foreigners, the Japanese were soon provoked and the ruler, Hideyoshi, ordered the execution of many Christians, including six Franciscans, seventeen of their Japanese neophytes and (by mistake) three Japanese Jesuit lay brothers at Nagasaki in February 1597. A respite followed, but in 1613 persecution was resumed, this time on a systematic basis, culminating in the destruction of the Christian mission by 1640.
The Padua edition only at Harvard. Newberry, University of Kansas, and Boston College have the Rome edition by Zanetti, printed in the same year.
Not in Cordier or Adams.
FROES, Luis. Lettera annua del Giappone dell'anno M.D.XCVI
Padua, Appresso Francesco Bolzetta, 1599.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 124. Woodcut printer's device on -p, initials. Early ms. initials on t-p. Clean and bright throughout, only sporadic worm tracks to the blank margins. C17th limp vellum. An excellent copy.
This rare letter of Portuguese Jesuit missionary Froes, dated at Nagasaki December 13, 1596, is addressed to Padre Claudio Acquaviva, General of the Society. It was translated into Italian by another Jesuit, Francesco Mercati. The relation gives a detailed regional description of affairs in Japan in the 1590s, by which time the predominantly Jesuit Christian mission in Japan had made considerable progress. However, the position was one of great uncertainty, for by the mid 1590s, Franciscans had arrived from the Philippines and the Japanese felt that they were preparing the way for the conquest of Japan. Torn between their desire for trade and their distaste of the behaviour of foreigners, the Japanese were soon provoked and the ruler, Hideyoshi, ordered the execution of many Christians, including six Franciscans, seventeen of their Japanese neophytes and (by mistake) three Japanese Jesuit lay brothers at Nagasaki in February 1597. A respite followed, but in 1613 persecution was resumed, this time on a systematic basis, culminating in the destruction of the Christian mission by 1640.
The Padua edition only at Harvard. Newberry, University of Kansas, and Boston College have the Rome edition by Zanetti, printed in the same year.
Not in Cordier or Adams.
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