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By Ikuo Higashibaba

ISBN-10: 141752460X

ISBN-13: 9781417524600

ISBN-10: 9004122907

ISBN-13: 9789004122901

Whilst the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier brought Catholic Christianity to Japan in 1549, it built fast within the kingdom. the japanese known as this new non secular circulation and its believers Kirishitan. This quantity explores the preferred non secular existence and tradition of the local adherents, which were so frequently neglected in traditional reviews of Christianity in sixteenth- and 17th-century Japan. topics incorporated are lay missionaries, fans' engagement in symbols and rituals, eastern catechism, and apostasy, underground perform, and martyrdom lower than persecution. This booklet presents attention-grabbing information regarding the religion and perform of the japanese fans, and expands the horizon of ancient reviews of jap Christianity. it truly is a major resource for college kids of eastern stories, non secular background, and experiences of cross-cultural interplay.

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The Christian tone of Dainichi in Anjiro's explanation was further amplified when written down by Lancilotto who, because of In the summer and the winter of 1548, Lancilotto made three reports on Japanese religion based on the information provided by Anjira. For an English translation of Lancilotto's letters, see FX 3: 479-488, 572-573, and 574. See JLCJ (J), 3 5 4 3 for a Japanese translation of his first letter; and JLCJ, 23-39 for its Italian version. FX 3: 483484. 21 Consequently, the character of Dainichi in Anjira's information came to resemble that of God.

F. Moral, The Japanese and the Jesuits (London: Routledge, 1993), 102. For Cabral'b view on military lords' influcncc on peaple's faith, see also VMPJ I : 206-207. " These numbers are drawn from Gonoi Takashi, Nihoiz Kirisurokyo shi, 93-95; and Tayama Mikio. O m n m Szunitada (Tokyo: Seizan Sha, 1981), 178. Frois wrote that the converts in the Omura domain numbered more than Corty thousand (FN 10: 14). THE JESUIT MISSION TO JAPAN 15 domain. "28 Temples were either changed into Christian churches or demolished.

Thus the essence of the problem was more basic and was concerned with the social existence of the European missionaries. Native Missionury SluJ In the eyes of Visitor Alessandro Valignano, who came to Japan in 1579, the quality of the Japanese "converts" was disappointing and problematic. According to him, the majority of Japanese converts--particularly in the district of western Kyushu where collective conversion was forced-had "no supernatural motives" in becoming Christian. " Since they lacked proper disposition even for baptism, he thought they should not be baptized.

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