João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan by João Rodrigues
João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan

João Rodrigues

João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan

Hakluyt Society, Third

João Rodrigues

490 pages missing pub info (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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