2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-67339-3_9
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Translation Policies, Material Book Culture and the Contempt for the World in the Early Jesuit Mission in Japan

Katja Triplett

Abstract: Japanese Jesuit prints of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries bear witness to early attempts to translate both well-known and newly composed texts for the Catholic mission in Japan. The Jesuits followed various translation policies for their missionary project during the “Christian century” in Japan. After 1590, recognizing the importance of the book medium in Japan, they relied on the distribution of their texts mainly in the form of printed books and experimented with the printing of various scripts to r… Show more

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