On the Threshold of Japan: Gaspar do Amaral, the 'Jesuit Network' and the Contribution of the Japanese Mission and the Japanese Diaspora to the Deployment and in the Settlement of the Jesuit Mission in Tun Kim
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Year:
- 2013
- Journal Title:
- Review of Culture
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- n/a
- Issue:
- 44
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- Abstract:
Although identified and inventoried, the documentation named ‘Jesuítas na Asia’ from the National Library of the Ajuda Palace, in Lisbon, continues to reveal a wealth of new documents, that, if studied in detail, contribute to a broadening, and at times, as a prompt for more questions with regard to the organisation and ‘multinational’ operations by the Society of Jesus in the Far East, from the economical, as well as the spiritual and intellectual point of view.Through the discussion of the cosmopolite maritime merchant networks operating between Japan, Macao and Tonkin in the 16th/17th centuries and of some correspondence from Gaspar do Amaral (1594–1646), a ‘forgotten’ Jesuit (even though he had been a Rector at the College of Macao in 1640, Provincial and Visitor of the Province of Japan as well as the Vice-Province of China in 1644), we can better assess the role of the mission in Japan (despite the difficulties confronted in the first decades of the 17th century) and of the South Asia Japanese diaspora in the settlement, the perseverance and even in some development of the Jesuit mission in Tonkin.
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- Page Range:
- 110–123
- ISSN:
- 1682-1106