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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.
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ISBN: 9781138643321 9780415727570 9781315852140 9781317917793 9781317917809 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Routledge

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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 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.

Le puissant royaume du Japon : la description de François Caron (1636).
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ISBN: 2906462918 9782906462915 Year: 2003 Volume: *18 Publisher: Paris Chandeigne

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Warlords, artists & commoners : Japan in the sixteenth century.
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ISBN: 0824806921 Year: 1981 Publisher: Honolulu University press of Hawaii


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Européens et Japonais : traité sur les contradictions et différences de moeurs, écrit par le R.P. Luìs Fròis au Japon, l'an 1585.
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ISBN: 2906462551 9782906462557 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris Chandeigne

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