Hasta los confines de Japón: un manuscrito inédito sobre el viaje de Jerónimo de Angelis a la isla de Hokkaidô (1618)

In 1618 the Italian Jesuit Jerónimo de Angelis traveled to Ezo, now Hokkaidô, an island located north of Japan and which, at that time, was an uncharted territory for both, Europeans and Japanese. The objective of this journey was to assess the suitability of this land and its inhabitants, the Ainu...

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Autor: González-Bolado, J. (Jaime)|||/items/8cb7360c-ce41-4bef-8553-0952c40053fd
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/66930
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/66930
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Jesuitas
Japón
Jerónimo de Angelis
Etnografía
Geografía
Misioneros
Hokkaidô
Ezo
Ainu
Manuscrito
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Sumario:In 1618 the Italian Jesuit Jerónimo de Angelis traveled to Ezo, now Hokkaidô, an island located north of Japan and which, at that time, was an uncharted territory for both, Europeans and Japanese. The objective of this journey was to assess the suitability of this land and its inhabitants, the Ainu ethnicity, to receive Christianity. This article analyzes the report that De Angelis wrote about his trip to inform the superiors of the Society of Jesus in Rome. This document, unpublished until now, contains detailed information about the livelihood, character and spirituality of the Ainu people, which, in addition to being of great value for the study of Japanese Christianity, can be considered as an early example of modern ethnographic analysis.