Portuguese voyages to Asia and Japan in the Renaissance period
Subtitle: proceedings of the international conference held at Sophia University, Tokyo, from September 24-26, 1993, commemorating the first arrival of westerners in Japan (Portuguese traders on the island of Tanegashima) on September 23, 1543, exactly 450 years ago
By: edited by Peter Milward ; sponsored by the Renaissance Centre, Sophia University [and] the Renaissance Institute Japan ; supported by the Embassy of Portugal ... [et al.].
Series: Renaissance monographs -- 20
Publisher: The Renaissance Institute, Sophia University
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Tokyo, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Portuguese; History; Congresses; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Title also in Japanese (cover, p. 4).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Portuguese and the trading world of Asia in the sixteenth century / by J. Villiers; title: Raphael Hythlodaeus, the remarkable sixteenth-century Portuguese / by P.A. Sawada; title: Between Goa and Macau / by B. Basto da Silva; title: The early Jesuits in Japan and Buddhism / by M. Cooper; title: The role of children in the early Japanese church / by J. Ruiz-de-Medina; title: Linguistic studies by the Jesuit mission press in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / by Y.T. Maruyama; title: Shakespeare's voyages to the little world of man / by P. Milward; title: After Columbus / by P. Harvey; title: Neptune's triumph and the East Indies trade / by T. Heffernan; title: Epilogue: Is the West different from the East? / by Jaime Coelho.