Tsūji, Interpreters in and Around Early Modern Japan

Mino Saito is Associate Professor at Juntendo University, Japan. Miki Sato is Professor at Sapporo University, Japan.

• Chapter 1: Introduction (Miki Sato and Mino Saito).- Chapter 2: The Role of Jesuit Missionary João Rodrigues Tçuzu (1561?-1634?): Interpreter, Trade Liaison, and Linguist in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries (Etsuko Nanjo).- Chapter 3: Oranda-tsūji (Japanese-Dutch Interpreters) in the 18th Century: The Case of YOSHIO Kōzaemon (Kōgyū) (Miyuki Tanaka).- Chapter 4: Reconsidering the Role of Nagasaki Tō-tsūji (Japanese-Chinese Interpreters) in the History of Interpreting Between Japan and China (Yukari Hiratsuka).- Chapter 5: Japanese-Korean tsūji and AMENOMORI Hōshū in the 18th Century (Hiroko Furukawa).- Chapter 6: Ryukyuan-Chinese tsūji as an Intermediary in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Mino Saito).- Chapter 7: The Arrival of Western Ships and English Language Interpreters in Ryukyu During the 19th Century: The Case of ITARASHIKI Chōchū (Mutsuko Tsuboi).- Chapter 8: Ezo-tsūji (Japanese-Ainu Interpreters in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century: The Case of UEHARA Kumajirō (Miki Sato).- Chapter 9: The Marginality of Otokichi, a Castaway Turned Interpreter: Into the Unknown Interpreter History in Early-Modern Japan (Mikako Naganuma).