Outline
The symposium examines transnational
relations between Japan and (Counter-)
Reformation Europe through the lens oftranslation.
Thetranslation
concept
adapted includes linguistic as well as
cultural translations. Contributors analyze
various translation processes including thetranslation of European religious thought
into Japanese, the translation of Japaneseand European images and artefacts andthe translation of Jesuit letters from Japan.
We are particularly interested in discussing
the “translation” of meaning, i. e. how texts,
images and artefacts were renderedculturally significant to Japanese andEuropean audiences. We are also keen to
explore the agency of translators as well as
the socio-cultural and political-economic
dimensions of their translation strategies.
Questions explored include:
Are similar experiences and concerns
more important in this early period oftransnational
encountersthantheconstruction of otherness that focus ondifference? How and to which extent did
the Catholic mission in Japan contribute to
the justification of Catholic “Universalism”
through translation?

Co-organized by Dr. Katja Triplett(Leipzig University),
Dr. Yoshimi Orii (Keiō University, Tokyo)
and Dr. Pia Jolliffe (University of Oxford)
Organization assistance:
Juan Camilo Castillo Rivadeneira, M.A.
Funded by the German Research Council
Priority Program “Early Modern TranslationCultures” (SPP 2130) and JSPS “Probabilismand Mission” (20K00107)
Center of Advanced Studies inthe Humanities and Social Sciences„Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West,Beyond Modernities”
Nikolaistrasse 8-1004109 Leipzig, Germany
Conference venue:
Nikolaistrasse 8-10 (Strohsackpassage),
Room 5.55
Registration for online participation required.
Email: yorii@keio.jp
Public lecture with festive reception andbook launch, GRASSI Museum(entrance via Täubchenweg),
2 September, 6.15 - 7.30 p.m.
Registration required.
Email: juan.castillo@uni-leipzig.deInternational
Symposium

Religion, Translation andTransnational Relations:Japan and (Counter-)
Reformation Europe
1-3 September 2022

Thursday, 1 September
10 10.30 am

Registration and Coffee

10.30 11.15 am

WelcomeP

Section 1: Language
11.15 am 12 pm

Pray and Wish in Jesuit
Japanese Grammars(Kurokawa, Mari)

12 - 2 pm

Lunch

2 - 2.45 pm

Translations, Bibliography, andthe Materiality of Language(Bianchi, Alessandro)

2.45 3.15 pm

Coffee BreakRO4 - 4.45 pm

4.45 5.15 pm

The Theological Sources of theTheory of “Dissimulation” During
the Period of Persecution ofChristianity in Japan(Orii, Yoshimi)
The Jesuit Compendia in Latin
and Japanese: On theProvenance of Their Text
Witnesses and Issues ofAuthorship(Osterkamp, Sven)

Summary of Day 1

RFriday, 2 SeptemberA

9.30 10.15 am

Keynote lecture:
The Discovery and Significanceof Sufera-no nukigaki (Selectionon the Sphere), a JapaneseTranslation of Jesuit Cosmology
Textbook (Hiraoka, Ryuji)

10.15 10.45 am

Coffee BreakSection 3: Encounters10.45 11.30 amKeynote lecture: The Other Endof the Encounter: Revisiting
Cultural Agencies of theChristian Mission in Early
Modern Japan(Higashibaba, Ikuo)

11.30 am 12.15 pm“This Iaponian Palme-tree ofChristian Fortitude” – Jesuit
letters from Japan and theEnglish (Counter-) Reformation(Jolliffe, Pia)12.15 2.15 pm

Lunch

2.15 - 3 pm

Visualizing Translation: The
Painting Seminary in Japanand its Audiences(Curvelo, Alexandra)

Section 2: New Materials
3.15 - 4 pm

G2 - 3.30 pm

Coffee Break3.30 - 4 pm

Summary of Day 2

6.15 7.30 pm

Public lecture, GRASSI Museumfür Völkerkunde zu Leipzig: TheSamurai & the Cross: Jesuit
Missionaries and Manuscripts in
Early Modern Japan(Ucerler, Antoni)

M

Saturday, 3 September
Section 4: Networks/Politics

9.30 - 10 am

Translation and Transnational
Relations in Early Modern
Japanese Confraternities(Tronu, Carla)

10 10.45 am

Coffee Break

10.45 11.30 am

Cultural Translations and Edition
Processes: A Study of theJesuits’ Texts Written from theJapanese Mission, Translated
and Included by R. Hakluyt in
The Principal Navigations(Vol. 2, 1599)(Hoyos Hattori, Paula)

11.30 am 12.15 pm

Remarks on the BodleianJapanese Jesuit Missionary printof the Contemptus mundi
jenbu (1596) and its Way into a
European Collection(Triplett, Katja)

12.15 1.15 pm

Lunch

1.15 - 2 pm

Concluding discussion

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