A vida e a acção pastoral de d.Luís Cerqueira S.J., bispo do Japão (1598-1614) / Inácia Rumiko Kataoka

"Tese de doutoramento na Pontificia Universidade Gregoriana. Faculdade de História Eclesiástica."

Includes bibliographical references.

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]

Giovanni Battista Sidoti (Palermo, 22 agosto 1667-Tokyo, 27 novembre 1715) : missionario e martire in Giappone / Mario Torcivia

Includes bibliographical referneces (pages 139-173) and index

Nihon, Kirisutokyō to no kaikō : futasu no jidai ni miru juyōto kattō 日本、キリスト教との邂逅：二つの時代に見る受容と葛藤 / Ōta Yoshiko 太田淑子

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-294) and index.

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 ザビエル / Obara Satoru 尾原悟

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-229) and indexes (p.230-236).