This chapter considers the debates surrounding the failure of the Jesuit Japanese mission, in the wake of the return to Japan of the so-called Tenshō Embassy, that raged in the Indian Province in the decade of the 1590s. It focuses in particular on the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missionaries to obtain authority in this debates, based on references to the Biblical/Classical canon, and to their own experience of Asian cultures and contexts.
From a Watchtower: Francisco Cabral's Envisioning of the Failure of the Jesuit Japanese Mission (1593)
Linda Zampol D'Ortia
2020-01-01
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This chapter considers the debates surrounding the failure of the Jesuit Japanese mission, in the wake of the return to Japan of the so-called Tenshō Embassy, that raged in the Indian Province in the decade of the 1590s. It focuses in particular on the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missionaries to obtain authority in this debates, based on references to the Biblical/Classical canon, and to their own experience of Asian cultures and contexts.
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