The Yamaguchi disputes: apprehension and representation in the early years of the jesuit mission in Japan (1549-1569)

• Grant number: 21/02947-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2021
• End date: July 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron
• Grantee: Pedro Henrique Irii Guedes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present work intends to study how the Japanese religious and cultural practices were incorporated and led the Jesuits' way of acting in the Japanese mission of the 16th century, focusing on their early years, the so-called Initial Period (1549-1569). This question presupposes understanding how missionaries learned and represented Japanese religious and cultural symbols. With this purpose, the documents written by the Jesuits Cosme de Torres (1510-1570) and Juan Fernández (1526-1567) in the event known as Yamaguchi Disputes, referring to the conversations and debates that the missionaries had with the Japanese monks and "bonzos" in the city of Yamaguchi, south of the island of Honshu, in 1551, two years after the start of the mission. (AU)