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The Dispersion of Jesuit Books Printed in Japan: Trends in Bibliographical Research and in Intellectual History (2015)

Orii, Yoshimi (Author)

Journal of Jesuit Studies
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 189-207
Publication date: 2015
Language: English

DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00202002

URI: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22141332-00202002

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Printing Libraries and archives Globalization; internationalization Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence Transmission of texts Publishers and publishing 17th century 16th century Japan Jesuits (Society of Jesus)

This article introduces the recent bibliographical research on Kirishitan-ban, a series of books published by the Jesuit mission press in Japan in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Afterwards, the books were dispersed through political turmoil; some are still to be found scattered across the world. In addition, the study presents a textual comparison of some Kirishitan-ban with their European originals, in order to examine the compilation and translation policies of the Jesuits in Japan. Authors or editors sometimes manipulated or revised important sections, for instance omitting a statement on predestination or adding a discourse on the immortality of the soul, illustrating the Jesuits’ strategy of balancing the Japanese and the European-Catholic intellectual climates of their time. Analyzing both the books and their contents will contribute to the study of the globalization of Jesuit intellectual history and library research.

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