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Annual report on 1609-10
RODRIGUEZ GIRÃO, João.Lettera annua del Giappone del 1609. e 1610, scritta al M.R.P. Claudio Acquaviva.    Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum, title in ink and former shelf marks on spine. 147 pp. Rare first Italian edition of the annual report and letter on the events that had taken place in Japan during the years 1609 & 1610, especially regarding the Jesuit mission there. The letter (pp. 3- 147) begins and ends with an extended account of shipping activity. There is also a brief general assessment of the political situation in Japan and foreign relations with China, as well as a systematic review of all the missions city by city. The Letter, thought to be signed from Nagasaki, is written by the Portugese Father Joao Rodriguez (also called Giram, Giron Girao or Roiz; 1558-1633) and addressed to Claudio Acquaviva, General of the Jesuit order. Father Rodriguez was admitted to the Jesuit order in December 1576. He left for Japan in 1583 and died there in 1633. He has written a number of works on Japan, a o. a useful grammar on the Japanese language. He wrote several annual reports over the years 1604-6, 1609-12 and 1624; the letter on 1626 would follow in the Lettere annue del Giappone de gl' anni 1625-1627. In 1623, at the time Father Rodriguez wrote this relation, Iyemitsu, the new Tokugawa clan chief, brought up the question of the anti-Christian edicts issued by his predecessors. That same year 500 Catholics, missionaries as well as converted Japanese, were executed. Good copy.- (Front hinge loosening; ex-libris of Collegio Romano on inside of front cover; three former library stamps on the recto and one on the verso of the title).
De Backer-Sommervogel VI.1972.7; Alt Japan Kat. 1309; Laures 309; Cordier, Japonica, col. 268/2; NUC lists three copies; OCLC mentions a microfilm in Hong Kong.
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