TY - BOOK ID - 40866647 TI - The first European description of Japan, 1585 : a critical English-language edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. AU - Fróis, Luís AU - Reff, Daniel T. AU - Gill, Robin D. AU - Danford, Richard K. PY - 2015 SN - 9781138643321 9780415727570 9781315852140 9781317917793 9781317917809 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Japan KW - Description and travel. KW - Social conditions. KW - Civilization KW - Description and travel KW - J3400 KW - J4000.50 KW - J4140.50 KW - Japan: Geography and local history -- Honshū and Japan in general KW - Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Muromachi, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Muromachi, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) KW - J4150.50 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40866647 AB - 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 constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War. ER -