Fables and imitations. Kirishitan Literature in the Forest of Simple Letters
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| contents | Fables and imitations. Kirishitan Literature in the Forest of Simple Letters Historia Japanese prose produced in the period between the 1590s and the1680s is dominated by the amorphous but seemingly omnivorous speciesclassified by Japanese scholars the keepers of what they themselves callkokubungaku, the national literature under the label kanazôshi, feuilletonsin simple [Japanese] letters. During the first two and a half decadesof that period, that is, until they were banned from the country in 1614,Jesuit missionaries engaged in lively literary and publishing activities inJapan. Their press, equipped with a moveable-type apparatus importedfrom Portugal in 1590 (the first machinery of this type seen in Japan),printed as many as fifty titles, twenty-nine of which are extant. Other literaryworks generated by the mission survive in manuscript. The bibliographyof texts associated with the Christian endeavour, whether publishedor unpublished at the time, includes some masterpieces of Japanese prose,such as Myôtei mondô (The Myôtei Dialogue, 1605) by Fabian Funcan, abrilliant piece of Christian apologetics. It is therefore remarkable thatJapanese specialists in the national literature ignore its early-modernChristian heritage with practically no exceptions. (The exception thatproves the rule is an adaptation of the Fables of Aesop.) They appear to behappy to relegate that heritage into the hands of linguists, philologists, orcultural and intellectual historians. In any event, they keep it out of thereserve of the species kanazôshi. So this ill-defined species is at the sametime indiscriminate in taking in whatever is available and exclusivist inregard to fully qualified candidates for incorporation leading to questionsas the utility of the term. 2002 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100402 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Num.4 |
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| spellingShingle | Fables and imitations. Kirishitan Literature in the Forest of Simple Letters Historia Fables and imitations. Kirishitan Literature in the Forest of Simple Letters Historia Japanese prose produced in the period between the 1590s and the1680s is dominated by the amorphous but seemingly omnivorous speciesclassified by Japanese scholars the keepers of what they themselves callkokubungaku, the national literature under the label kanazôshi, feuilletonsin simple [Japanese] letters. During the first two and a half decadesof that period, that is, until they were banned from the country in 1614,Jesuit missionaries engaged in lively literary and publishing activities inJapan. Their press, equipped with a moveable-type apparatus importedfrom Portugal in 1590 (the first machinery of this type seen in Japan),printed as many as fifty titles, twenty-nine of which are extant. Other literaryworks generated by the mission survive in manuscript. The bibliographyof texts associated with the Christian endeavour, whether publishedor unpublished at the time, includes some masterpieces of Japanese prose,such as Myôtei mondô (The Myôtei Dialogue, 1605) by Fabian Funcan, abrilliant piece of Christian apologetics. It is therefore remarkable thatJapanese specialists in the national literature ignore its early-modernChristian heritage with practically no exceptions. (The exception thatproves the rule is an adaptation of the Fables of Aesop.) They appear to behappy to relegate that heritage into the hands of linguists, philologists, orcultural and intellectual historians. In any event, they keep it out of thereserve of the species kanazôshi. So this ill-defined species is at the sametime indiscriminate in taking in whatever is available and exclusivist inregard to fully qualified candidates for incorporation leading to questionsas the utility of the term. 2002 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100402 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Num.4 |
| title | Fables and imitations. Kirishitan Literature in the Forest of Simple Letters |
| topic | Historia |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100402 |