La nascita del mondo moderno in Asia orientale : la penetrazione europea e la crisi delle società tradizionali in India, Cina e Giappone / Giorgio Borsa.
Bibliography: p. 543-[568].
Includes index.

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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The Company and the Shogun : the Dutch encounter with Tokugawa Japan / Adam Clulow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index.

Introduction: Taming the Dutch -- 1: Diplomacy. Royal Letters from the Republic ; The Lord of Batavia ; The Shogun's loyal vassals -- 2: Violence. The violent sea ; Power and petition -- 3: Sovereignty. Planting the flag in Asia ; Giving up the Governor -- Conclusion: The Dutch experience in Japan.

"The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again -- from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise."-- From publisher's description.

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