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Nagasaki, Japan. Nationality. Portuguese. Occupation (s) Portuguese Missionary, writer. Signature. Plaque of Luís Frois, Nagasaki - Japan. Historia de Iapam, manuscript page. Luís Fróis (1532 – 8 July 1597) was a Portuguese missionary who worked in Asia during the second half of the 16th century.
May 18, 2021 · The First European Description of Japan, 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. Collection opensource
Jan 2, 2024 · The focus of the thesis is the work of the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis (1532-97). It refutes the view of the historiography that has considered his magnum opus the História de Japam , produced between 1584-93, as bona fide and as one of the most reliable sources
This article argues that Luís Fróis used gender as a modelling device to organize and produce knowledge about two diverse societies and cultures to advance the Jesuit mission in Japan. This only worked because Japanese society was also organized around a patriarchal gender system, which facilitated intercultural communication through its ...
Aug 15, 2020 · According to Frois, Francisco Xavier instructed the missionary the way to preach the basics of Christianity in Japan, knowing the situation of influential Japanese Buddhism, which cannot be united into single religious concept by innated sectarianism, as follows: To verify the existence of the God Almighty.
A book by Cristina Castel-Branco and Guida Carvalho that explores the 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit's descriptions of Japan's culture, history and geography. It compares Frois's manuscripts with contemporary sources, Japanese iconography and present-day gardens and cities.
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Mar 1, 2014 · ABSTRACT. In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which ...
