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]

Bateren Kintsuba : Tomasu Jihyōe Shinpu 伴天連金鍔 : トマス次兵衛神父 / Cieslik, Hubert フーべルト・チースリク, 1914-1998

Local access dig. pdf. [Pytlik-Christianity Tea Jesuits Japan.pdf]

Ikitsuki no Junkyōsha : Gasuparu Nishi Genka 生月の殉教者 : ガスパル西玄可 / Cieslik, Hubert フーべルト・チースリク, 1914-1998

Kyōto no Daijunkyō : Sen-roku-hyaku-jū-kyū-nen Jū-gatsu Muika 京都の大殉教 : 一六一九年 十月六日 / Yūki Ryōgo 結城了悟, 1922-2008

Shinto shitoshoku no kagami 信徒使徒職の鑑 : Yamaguchi no mōjin Damian 山口の盲人ダミアン / Cieslik, Hubert フーベルト・チースリク, 1914-1998

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]

Zabieru no dōhansha Anjirō : sengoku jidai no kokusaijin ザビエルの同伴者アンジロー：戦国時代の国際人 / Kishino Hisashi 岸野久

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232).