The First European Description of Japan, 1585 by Luís Fróis
The First European Description of Japan, 1585

Luís Fróis

The First European Description of Japan, 1585

Luís Fróis

312 pages first pub 1585 (editions)

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In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitut...

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