This Island of Japon: João Rodrigues' Account of 16th-Century Japan by João Rodrigues
This Island of Japon: João Rodrigues' Account of 16th-Century Japan

João Rodrigues

This Island of Japon: João Rodrigues' Account of 16th-Century Japan

Hakluyt Society, Third

João Rodrigues with Michael Cooper

354 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Jo o Rodrigues sailed from Portugal to Japan in 1577, and there entered the Jesuit novitiate and was ordained priest. He met Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the virtual ruler of Japan, in 1591, and from that time became the missionaries' spokesman in dealings...

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