Conquering demons
Subtitle: the "Kirishitan," Japan, and the world in early modern Japanese literature
By: Jan C. Leuchtenberger
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies -- Number 75
Publisher: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781929280773; 9781929280780; 9781929280797
Subjects: Japanese literature; History and criticism; Christianity and literature; Literature and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Building the barbarian Kirishitan other and a sacred Japan; title: Romans and demons: Kirishitan villains in Baterenki and Kirishitan monogatari; title: Imagining the Kirishitan, Japan, and the world in Kirishitan shømon raichø jikki; title: Conjurers and conquerors: the Kirishitan figure in other Late Edo discourses.