Description
This Czech-language edition presents a concise Portuguese manuscript by Luís Fróis (1532–1597), a first-generation Jesuit missionary who spent more than thirty years in Japan and wrote an extensive historical work about the country. Written in 1585, the manuscript waited almost four centuries for publication until Fróis’s fellow Jesuit Josef Franz Schütte discovered it in a Madrid library; it was first published in 1955 by a Jesuit university in Tokyo, together with an illuminating commentary and a parallel German translation. Originally a didactic Jesuit guide intended to ease European missionaries’ cultural shock in their encounters with the Japanese world, it is now considered the first systematic comparison of European and Japanese civilisation. Above all, it offers an irresistible portrait of Europe facing a mirror of otherness, reflecting an inverted yet equal image of itself.
Information
Author: Fróis Luís
Language: Czech
Publication date: September 6, 2022
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Triáda, s.r.o.
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Books, Esotericism and spirituality
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 152
ISBN/EAN: 9788074743801