Neo-Latin and Japan

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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When did the first Latin texts describing Japan emerge? When, how and why did some Japanese people began to actively communicate in the Latin language as early as the 1580s? How did Latin, the language of the ancient Romans and a hallmark of the West (the ‘European sign’), change through contact with a region and culture so remote from its home? This monograph addresses these and other questions while looking at European-authored travelogues, missionary reports, plays, a Vergilian epic and even haiku as well as Japanese-authored Latin prose and verse. Transcriptions of several never-before published Latin texts composed by the Japanese from the 1610s to 2024s are appended.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-15
Mått155 x 235 x 8 mm
Vikt252 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period
Antal sidor136
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004736139

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ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction – Setting the Stage2 Earliest Rumours and Myths: from Paul the Venetian to Horace the Hagiographer3 Rival Authorities: the Jesuits and Dominicans on Japan4 The First Japanese Latinists: Rise and Fall of the Jesuit Educational Mission5 Dying Echo: Mythical Japan in Baroque Catholic Neo-Latin6 Dutch Monopoly: from Varen to von Siebold7 Re-openings: Neo-Latin and Japan from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century8 ConclusionAppendicesBibliography