JOAO RODRIGUES'S ACCOUNT OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY JAPAN.
London. Published by Hakluyt Society, 2001. 4to. pp. xli + 427 with black & white illustrations and maps. Blue cloth hardcover in dust wrapper. light marks to the dust wrapper else very good. Item #194570
"João 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 & from that time became the missionaries' spokesman in dealings with Japanese authorities. He was also involved in negotiations concerning the bulk sale of Chinese silk in Japan, and commercial and political rivalries led to his eventual expulsion from the country in 1610. Rodrigues spent the rest of his life in Macao and the interior of China, dying in 1633."
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