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A Short History of Japanese Bible Translation. Katsuomi Shimasaki* The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the history of Japanese Bible translation for those who have no or limited knowledge about it by selecting major translation works with notes on them. 1. The Edo Era (16c to 19c) 1.1. Catholic. 1.1.1.
A Short History of Japanese Bible Translation. Katsuomi Shimasaki* The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the history of Japanese Bible translation for those who have no or limited knowledge about it by selecting major translation works with notes on them. 1. The Edo Era (16c to 19c) 1.1. Catholic. 1.1.1.
translate the Bible into the Japanese language among the Catholic believers during the 310 years since the first Jesuit missionary to Japan, Francis Xavier, appeared in Kagoshima in 1549 (the 18th year of Temmon, the 24th year of Emperor Gonara). Those Catholics, generally called Kirishitan in Japanese, had some passages of the Holy Scriptures
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It is commonly thought that during the early period of Roman Catholic evangelistic activity in Japan no translation of the Bible was made, and that only catechetical works were prepared in Japanese. It was not until the beginnings of the Protestant mission in the nineteenth century that attention was turned to the translation of the Bible.
Japanese Bible translation began when Catholic missionaries (Kirishitan) entered Japan in 1549, and Jesuits published the full New Testament in Kyoto, in 1613.
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translation made from modern-language critical versions with reference to the origi nal languages. Tsukamoto Toraji (1885-1973) AMukyokai dendosha (Non-church evange list), Tsukamoto Toraji first published a complete book of the Bible, the Gospel of Mark, in December 1953.5 As early as 1935, however, he had published parts of New
