Foldout map: O Christianismo no Japão, 1549-1650...showing the places where Christians existed or were persecuted ....based on maps in Anesaki's Concordance (1930) and Cardim's Elogios (1650).

The Namban trade : merchants and missionaries in 16th and 17th century Japan /  by Mihoko Oka.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Portuguese in the East Asian seas in the 16th century -- The structure and content of Namban trade -- The Namban trade and Nagasaki merchants: structure of investment and capital injection -- Macao and the Namban trade: the "maritime loan" debt problem -- Religion and power in Macao -- The Jesuits and trade after the prohibition of Christianity in Japan -- Nagasaki during the Kan'ei period: the affair of Paulo dos Santos -- Epilogue: the final phase of the Namban trade.

"This book attempts to depict certain aspects of the Portuguese trade in East Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries by analyzing the activities of the merchants and Christian missionaries involved. It also discusses the response of the Japanese regime in handling the systemic changes that took place in the Asian seas. Consequently, it explains how Jesuit missionaries forged close ties with local merchants from the start of their activities in East Asian waters, and there is no doubt that the propagation of Christianity in Japan was a result of their cooperation. The author of this book attempted to combine the essence of previous studies by Japanese and western scholars and added several new findings from analyses of original Japanese and European language documents"-- Provided by publisher.

Keywords: Namban 南蛮 (in this case and epoch referring primarily to Portuguese or other Europeans arriving in Japan from the south)

Dig.pdf. local access [Oka-Namban Trade.pdf]

See: Boston College catalog entry