Alessandro Valignano S.I. : uomo del Rinascimento, ponte tra Oriente e Occidente / a cura di Adolfo Tamburello, M. Antoni J. Üçerler, Marisa Di Russo.

Papers presented at an international colloquium held at Chieti, Italy, Oct. 27-28, 2006.
Eighteen contributions in Italian and 6 in English. Includes English-language abstracts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical copy in Director's Library; pdf [Alessandro Valignano S.I.pdf]

China at the center : Ricci and Verbiest world maps / Natasha Reichle, editor ; with essays by M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Theodore N. Foss, and Mark Stephen Mir.
Accompanies the "China at the Center" exhibition at the AAM and associated exhibit and symposium organized by the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco.
Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Jay Xu -- Preface. Mapping the marvelous / Natasha Reichle -- Missionaries, mandarins, and maps: reimagining the known world / M. Antoni J. Ucerler, SJ -- Ricci’s world map: the 1602 Kunyu wanguo quantu / Theodore N. Foss -- All under heaven: visions of far lands in the Verbiest world map of 1674 / Mark Stephen Mir.

"Global exploration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to new interactions between Europe and Asia. Jesuit priests were instrumental in spreading knowledge of the world to China and information about China to Europe. China at the Center focuses on two masterpieces of seventeenth-century map-making that illustrate this exchange of information (and misinformation). The first map is the Kunyu wanguo quantu, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth, also known as the 1602 Ricci map, after Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit priest who helped create it. The second is the 1674 Verbiest world map, which was also made by a Jesuit priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, for the Chinese court. These two maps are among the earliest, rarest, and largest woodblock-printed maps to survive from the period. They will be examined through the lens of the development of cartography in China and through the biographies of the fascinating men who were instrumental in their production. Maps are political objects, and the inclusion of elaborate and extensive notations on both these maps illustrate the fascinating relationships between the Jesuits and the Chinese courts. These maps represent the meeting of two worldviews, and the information they contain provided Europeans with greater knowledge of China and the Chinese with new ideas about geography, astronomy, and the natural sciences. This book accompanies the exhibition China at the Center, at the Asian Art Museum March 4-May 8, 2016, which brings together the 1602 Ricci map from the James Ford Bell Trust in Minneapolis and the 1674 Verbiest map from the Library of Congress in Washington D.C"-- Provided by publisher.
Local access dig.pdf. [China at the Center catalog.pdf]

Contents:
Introduction: Christianity and cultures: Japan & China in comparison, 1543-1644 / M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J.
I. Christian missionaries and their encounter with Japan & China: 1. The Jesuit encounter with Buddhism in Ming China / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia. 2. From Dainichi to Deus. The early missionaries’ discovery and understanding of Buddhism / Kishino Hisashi. Responses & Reflections / Nicolas Standaert, S.J.
II. The challenges of religious translation: creating a native East Asian Christian literature. 3. The archaeology of dreams: the Shengmengge, its translation and its transformation / Li Sher-shiueh. 4. The Japanese translations of the Jesuit mission press / William Farge, S.J. Responses & reflections / Thierry Meynard, S.J.
III. Living the new faith I: Christian liturgy & rituals: 5. The adaptation of the Christian liturgy & sacraments to Japanese culture during the Christian era in Japan / Ignatia Kataoka Rumiko. 6. A Solution to the Rites Controversy proposed by Antonio Rubino, S.J. / Asami Masakazu. Responses & reflections / Eugenio Menegon.
IV. Japanese and Chinese Christians: native faith communities & organizations: 7. Communities, Christendom, and the unified regime in early modern Japan / Kawamura Shinzō, S.J. 8. Trade, literati, and mission: the Catholic social network in late Ming southern Fujian / Zhang Xianqing. Responses & reflections / Gail King.
V. Living the new faith II: Christian art & its various expressions: 9. Artistic exchanges between Macau and Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Mo Xiaoye. 10. The iconography of the Virgin Mary in Japan & its transformation: Chinese Buddhist sculpture & Maria Kannon / Wakakuwa Midori. Responses & reflections / Thomas M. Lucas, S.J.
VI. The politics of the encounter: Japanese and Christian attitudes towards Christianity & Christians: 11. The Edo Shogunate’s view of Christianity in the seventeenth century / Yamamoto Hirofumi. 12. Europaeology? On the difficulty of assembling a knowledge of Europe in China / Timothy Brook. Responses & reflections / Qi Yinping.
VII. Macau at the crossroads of Europe and East Asia: 13. The Japanese students in the College of Macau (1594-1606) / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa. Responses & reflections / Patrick Provost-Smith.
Epilogue: Christianity and cultures: Japan & China in comparison, 1543-1644. Reflections on a significant theme / John W. Witek, S.J.

Compendium catholicae veritatis / kanshū henshū Jōchi Daigaku Kirishitan Bunko 監修編集上智大学キリシタン文庫.
Colophon title.
"Compendium catholicae veritatis, in gratiam Iapponicorum fratrum Societatis Iesu, confectum per rdum. Patrem Petrum Gomezium Vice-Provincialem Societatis Iesu in provincia Iapponica"--Vol. 1, t.p.
Vol. 1: Reproduction of ms. copy of Compendia, a textbook for Jesuit College of Japan, prepared by P. Gómez in 1593-1594, presently in the Vatican Apostolic Library (Reg. Lat. 426)
Vol. 2: Reproduction of ms. copies of Japanese translation of Compendia, consists of three parts (pt. 1 separately translated in the late 17th century by Kobayashi Kentei 小林議貞 has title: Nigi ryakusetsu [二儀略說], handwritten copy in Kokuritsu Kōbunshokan collection ; pts. 2-3, handwritten translation finished in 1595 (now in the Magdalen College, University of Oxford).
Vol. 3: Commentaries in English and Japanese: Jesuit humanistic education in sixteenth-century Japan / M. Antoni Üçerler -- Compendia of the Jesuit College of Japan (in Japanese) ; A comparative table of contents for the Latin and Japanese MSS. / Satoru Obara 尾原悟.
Includes bibliographical references. Errata slip inserted in v. 3 (p. 54a).
1. Compendia -- 2. Iezusukai Nihon Korejiyo no Konpendiumu -- 3. Kaisetsu 解說 (Commentaries)

First vol. consists of facsim. of the original Latin ms., composed in 1593-4; second vol. consists of facsim. of the ms. of the original contemporary Japanese translation supervised by Pedro Ramon in 1595; third volume consists of "commentaries" (i.e. a critical introduction) in English and Japanese.

"The general title was taken from the first three words of the title of De theologia (the third part of the original in Latin), Compendium catholicae veritatis .... The original in Latin lacks a title page for the whole."--[Vol. 1], Introductory remarks.
"The present facsimile edition comprises three ... manuscripts, each reproduced in full in high quality photographs .... The works in question form a tripartite compendium of: (i) Western astronomy, cosmology, and meteorology; (ii) Aristotelian philosophy; and (iii) Post-Tridentine Roman Catholic theology. Sources show that the trilogy was specifically written in textbook form for the benefit of Japanese and European students preparing for the priesthood and was first used at the Jesuit College in Kawachinoura (in Amakusa, Western Kyushu)."--V. 3, p. 11.

Vol. 3 also in pdf [Compendium Catholicae Commentaries.pdf]

近世印刷史とイエズス会系「絵入り本」= The History of Early Modern Printing and Jesuit Illustrated Books / 編者〕浅見 雅一 .
Title and table of contents also in English.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:
Asami Masakazu. Preface: The Jesuit missionary enterprise and the printing of illustrated books.

Part I: Jesuits and Books.
M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J. Missionary printing in Asia and the Americas in the age of exploration. -- Asami Masakazu. Martyrdom records and the lives of saints during Japan’s “Christian Century”: from Europe to Japan. -- Lee Won Soon. The introduction of Western books translated into Chinese by Jesuit missionaries to Korea and their influence.

Part II: Illustrated books.
Kawamura Shinzo, S.J. A comparison of illustrated devotional books printed in Japan with their original European editions. -- José Miguel Pinto dos Santos. Illustrations in the early editions of Marcos Jorge’s Christian Doctrine. -- Asami Masakazu. António Francisco Cardim, S.J. and his illustrated record of Japanese martyrdom (1646): a study of the martyrs’ portraits. -- Maeda Nobuhito. The First New Chronicle and Good Government by Guaman Poma de Ayala (c.1535-ca.1615) -- Asami Masakazu & Ahn Jung Won. The portrait of Candida Xu in The Life of the Noble Lady Candida Xu (1688) by Philippe Couplet, S.J.

Part III: Institutes and Research Trends.
Wu Xiaoxin. Legacies, efforts and resources: the Ricci Institute and its efforts to promote cross-cultural understanding through the study of Christianity in China. --Ahn Jung Won. The history of the Korean Catholic Church and the Research Foundation of Korean Church History. -- Ueno Daisuke. Buddhist illustrated books in the Edo period.

Includes bibliographical references.
平成21～25年度 文部科学省私立大学戦略的研究基盤形成支援事業「15～17世紀における絵入り本の世界的比較研究の基盤形成」報告書.

Jesuits in the eastern world as ‘forerunners of globalization’ / Carlota Miranda Urbano -- Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer / M. Antoni J. Üçerler 余安道 -- With a view towards Japan: Alessandro Valignano and the opening of the college in Macau / John Witek 魏若望 (1933-2010) -- The Japanese in the College of Macau (1595-1614) / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa -- Alessandro Valignano 范禮安 Fan Li-an (1539-1606): strategist of the Jesuit mission in China / Edward J. Malatesta 馬愛德 (1932-1998) -- Chronology of Alessandro Valignano / Marisa Di Russo.

The samurai and the cross : the Jesuit enterprise in early modern Japan / M. Antoni J Ucerler, SJ.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Re-inventing Christianity -- 1. Aristotle and Aquinas Come to Japan -- 2. Japanese Cases of Conscience -- 3. Jesuit Casuistry: From Rome to Nagasaki -- Part II: Re-imagining the Enterprise -- 4. The Politics of Accommodation -- 5. Alonso Sánchez and his 'Empresa de China' -- 6. The Cross, the Sword, and 'Just War' -- 7. Gómez versus Sánchez: 'Compel Them to Enter'? -- Part III: Re-interpreting 'Reason of State' -- 8. Jesuit Debates on Japanese 'Reason of State' -- 9. The Mechanics of Jesuit Obedience -- 10. Japanese Reactions to Christian 'Reason of State' -- 11. The End of the Missionary 'Enterprise' -- 12. 'Temporal' or 'Spiritual Conquest'? -- Epilogue: Some Further Reflections -- Appendices -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Select Glossary of Names and Terms -- Index

M. Antoni J. Ucerler examines how the Jesuit missionaries sought new ways to communicate their faith in an unfamiliar linguistic, cultural, and religious environment--and how they sought to ""re-invent"" Christianity in the context of samurai Japan. Based on little-known primary sources in various languages, The Samurai and the Cross explores the moral and political debates over religion, law, and ""reason of state"" that took place on both the European and the Japanese side --Pub. note 1

 This book explores the encounter of Christianity and premodern Japan in the wider context of global history. The first part examines how the Jesuit missionaries sought new ways to communicate their faith in an unfamiliar linguistic, cultural, and religious environment. Their aim was to 're-invent' Christianity in the context of samurai Japan. They developed an original 'moral casuistry' or 'cases of conscience' that responded to the specific dilemmas faced by Japanese Christians. The second part situates the European missionary 'enterprise' in East Asia within multiple political contexts. China and Japan resisted the presence both of foreigners and their beliefs. The Spanish Jesuit Alonso Sánchez argued for military intervention in China to guarantee the freedom to preach. This provoked a fierce debate in Europe, South America, and East Asia. The principles of 'just war' and the 'law of nations' formulated by the School of Salamanca were employed to argue both for and against compelling the Chinese to accept the missionaries. The third part turns back to Japan, where the Jesuits were facing persecution in the midst of civil war. They debated whether they could intervene in military conflicts by providing advice and arms to Japanese Christian lords to protect local communities. Some even advocated for the establishment of a 'Christian republic' or civil protectorate. In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumours of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat-or 'spiritual conquest'-that the Edo shogunate feared the most.--Pub. note 2

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