A vision betrayed : the Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542-1742 / Andrew C. Ross.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Japan and China before the expansion of the Iberian sea-borne empires -- Francis Xavier and the mission to Japan -- Alessandro Valignano -- Christian century in Japan, 1549-1650 to the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1598 -- Christian century in Japan, 1549-1650 to the coming of the "closed land" -- Matteo Ricci and the road to Beijing -- Christian priest and Confucian intellectual -- China mission under Schall and Verbiest -- the Pope, the Bourbon Kings and the Kangxi Emperor -- Whence came the vision?

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]

Alessandro Valignano, Fan Li-an 範禮安 (1539-1606) : strategist of the Jesuit mission in China / by Edward J. Malatesta.
Based on a presentation at the Fourth International Symposium of Ming Dynasty History, Fudan University, Shanghai, 17-22 August 1991.
Bibliography; p. 24-36.
Title: Fan Li-an 範禮安.

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Introductio ad historiam Societatis Jesu in Japonia, 1549-1650 : ac prooemium ad catalogos Japoniae edendos ad edenda Societatis Jesu Monumenta Historica Japoniae propylaeum : opus composuit plurimisque tabellis instruxit et adnotationibus / auxit Josephus Franciscus Schütte, S.J.
Bibliography: p. [xxxv]-xliv.
"Praesens volumen . . . formaliter inter volumina Monumenta Historica Societatis Jesu adscribere visum non est: sed modus imprimende omnio idem est... "
Includes index.

Local access dig.pdf. [Schutte-Introductio.pdf]

Namban byōbu 南蛮屏風 / Ōoka Makoto 大岡信.
Note: One central figure in this painting is reputed to be Alessandro Valignano. Cover title.
Shōwa 昭和48.

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 Japanese and the Jesuits : Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan / J.F. Moran.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.

1. Orientation -- 2. The ambassadors -- 3. The Visitor -- 4. Full and complete information -- 5. Ships and sealing-wax -- 6. The enterprise -- 7. Friars from the Philippines -- 8. High and low -- 9. The alms from the China ship -- 10. Rich and poor -- 11. The press -- 12. Japanese Jesuits -- 13. The Japanese language -- 14. Conclusion -- Appendix A: How land is owned and income reckoned in Japan -- Appendix B: How and why we got the port of Nagasaki.

“The Japanese and the Jesuits examines the attempt by sixteenth-century Jesuits to convert Japan to Christianity. Directing the Jesuits was the Italian Alessandro Valignano, whose own magisterial writings, many of them not previously translated or published, are the principal source material for this account of one of the most remarkable of all meetings between East and West.
Valignano arrived in Japan in 1579. In promoting Christianity, he always sought the support of the ruling classes. He taught the missionaries to adapt themselves thoroughly to Japanese customs, etiquette, and culture, and insisted that they master the Japanese language. He brought a European printing press to Japan, turning out grammars and dictionaries of Japanese for the missionaries, as well as works of instruction and devotion for the Japanese Christians.
Following Valignano's death, Christianity was proscribed and missionaries banished from Japan. This does not detract from his remarkable achievements, however. He understood perfectly well that foreign missionaries by themselves were not capable of converting Japan to Christianity. One of his principal concerns was the training of Japanese Jesuits and priests, and breaking down the barriers between them and the Europeans. Few people have been more acutely aware of the tensions or grappled more determinedly with the problems in Japanese-Western relationships than Valignano.”—Publisher’s note.

Local access dig. pdf [Moran-Valignano Japan.pdf]

Local access dig.pdf. [Schutte-Valignano Mission Principles Japan.pdf]

Valignanos Missionsgrundsätze für Japan /  Josef Franz Schütte S.J.

Bd.1. Von der Ernennung zum Visitator bis zum ersten Abschied von Japan (1573-1582) T.1. Das Problem (1573-1580) -- Bd.1. Von der Ernennung zum Visitator bis zum ersten Abschied von Japan (1573-1582) T.2. Die Losung (1580-1582).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.