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.

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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.

ABSTRACT (in English in the original)
The spread of the gospel in Japan began with the arrival of the Jesuits in 1549. Owners of a peculiar culture and a hierarchical social structure, the Japanese became the target of the admiration of the missionaries, who came to adjectives from White of Asia. Japan was located in the periphery of the Portuguese empire, which caused serious complications for evangelization. Apart from the distance from Goa and the lack of priests and resources, there were cultural, religious and linguistic disparities, along with political instability on behalf of Sengoku-Jidai. In the sixteenth century, the Jesuits used the model of cooperation with local elites and different strategies of adaptation as a way to achieve considerable results for Catholicism in the Kyushu and Honshu archipelagos. In the daily life, the mishaps were almost always overcome with the help of the natives, leading Companhia de Jesus to think about the elaboration of a corps of auxiliaries and catechists, called dógicos, in order to give linguistic and doctrinal support to the parents.
Between 1549 and 1578, the catechists were widely used by the Jesuits, however, their institutionalization came only from 1579, when Alessandro Valignano instituted the policy of training these individuals from colleges and seminaries. The institutional artifice of the visitor showed the predilection for the dógicos, who from the 1580s and 1590s underwent a process of educational improvement with the creation of seminars and colleges in Japan and Macao. Despite the relative success of the missions, the beginning of the seventeenth century was marked by retreats in these Christian communities, as a consequence of the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate. However, between 1598 and 1614, the period of activity of the Bishop of Funai, D. Luís de Cerqueira, began the first ordinations of natives in Japan with the creation of the Nagasaki Diocesan Seminary. In this way, the fear of Christianity's failure due to political upheavals led the Jesuits to transform the dógicos into a native clergy, guaranteeing the survival of their communities even at the height of religious persecution.

Keywords: Jesuits in Japan - Native Clergy - Nanban Period
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Deus destroyed : the image of Christianity in early modern Japan / George Elison.

Attitudes of entry: the Jesuit approach to the Japanese setting -- The Christian attempt at an ethical synthesis: the misunderstandings and the appeal -- The accommodative method: the Jesuit mission policy and cultural contribution -- The donation of Bartolomeu: a Jesuit colony in Nagasaki -- Hideyoshi and the sectarians -- Pilgrim's progress: Fabian Fucan -- The final solution -- The effects of propaganda: epitaph to an encounter -- Deus destroyed / Fabian Fucan -- Deceit disclosed / Christovão Ferreira sive Sawano Chūan -- Kirishitan Monogatari: anonymous chapbook -- Christians countered / Suzuki Shōsan.

Translations (p. [255]-389): Fabian, F. Deus destroyed (Ha Daiusu).--Ferreira, C. sive Sawano, C. Deceit disclosed (Kengiroku).--Kirishitan monogatari, anonymous chapbook.--Suzuki, S. Christians countered (Ha Kirishitan).
Includes bibliography (p.495-514) and index.

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Ha Daiusu : Destruyendo a Deus / Fabián Fukan ; edición crítica y traducción de Giuseppe Marino.
Translation of Ha Deusu 破提宇子. Includes Japanese text.
Includes bibliographical references.

“La transcriptión del texto original ha sido elaborada por el Dr. Kofuji Timoyasu 小藤朋保 del departamento de Religiious Studies de la Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology en la The University of Tokyo. El texto sigue fielmene la edición del professor Ebisawa Arimichi, en Kirishitansho/Haiyasho. Nihon Shiso Taikei vol. 25, Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten 1970”

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.

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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.

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