The First European Description of Japan, 1585 by Richard Danford Luis Frois SJ Daniel T. Reff

Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    Series Editor:
    Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University
    Editorial Board:
    Pamela Asquith, University of Alberta
    Eyal Ben Ari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
    Kirsten Refsing, University of Copenhagen
    Wendy Smith, Monash University
    Founder Member of the Editorial Board:
    Jan van Bremen, University of Leiden
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    The world of living things by Kinji Imanishi
    Translated by Pamela J Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Shusuke Yagi and Hiroyuki Takasaki
    Edited and introduced by Pamela J Asquith
    Japan’s Changing Generations
    Are young people creating a new society?
    Edited by Gordon Mathews and Bruce White
    The Care of the Elderly in Japan
    Yongmei Wu
    Community Volunteers in Japan
    Everyday stories of social change
    Lynne Y. Nakano
    Nature, Ritual and Society in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands
    Arne Røkkum
    Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
    The japanese introspection practice of naikan
    Chikako Ozawa-de Silva
    Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
    Essays in honour of jan van bremen
    Edited by Joy Hendry and Heung Wah Wong
    Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
    Edited by Maria Rodriguez del Alisal, Peter Ackermann and Dolores Martinez
    The Culture of Copying in Japan
    Critical and historical perspectives
    Edited by Rupert Cox
    Primary School in Japan
    Self, individuality and learning in elementary education
    Peter Cave
    Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
    An ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
    Mitchell W. Sedgwick
    Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
    Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis and Okpyo Moon
    Making Japanese Heritage
    Edited by Christoph Brumann and Robert A. Cox
    Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony
    The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan
    Kaeko Chiba
    Home and Family in Japan
    Continuity and transformation
    Edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy
    Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria:
    The lives of war orphans and wives in two countries
    Yeeshan Chan
    Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto
    Claiming a right to the past
    Christoph Brumann
    Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan
    Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen
    Language, Education and Citizenship in Japan
    Genaro Castro-Vázquez
    Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan
    Hikaru Suzuki
    Disability in Japan
    Carolyn S. Stevens
    Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion
    Tullio Federico Lobetti
    Japanese Tree Burial
    Ecology, kinship and the culture of death
    Sébastien Penmellen Boret
    Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo
    Diasporic indigeneity and urban politics
    Mark K. Watson
    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 .
    Translated, edited and annotated by Richard K. Danford, Robin D. Gill , and Daniel T. Reff .

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.
    Translated from the Portuguese original and edited and annotated by
    Richard K. Danford, Robin D. Gill, and Daniel T. Reff
    With a critical introduction by
    Daniel T. Reff

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