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Anjirō (アンジロー) or Yajirō (弥次郎, ヤジロウ),
Early life
Anjirō was originally a
With Xavier
Anjirō had picked up some pidgin Portuguese by this time and could communicate with Xavier directly. The priest told Anjirō the word of God while Anjirō described the land of Japan to Xavier, which impressed the priest so much that he became resolved to go to Japan himself. Anjirō then went with Xavier to Goa, the headquarters of Portuguese India where he was baptized with the name Paulo de Santa Fé (Paul of the Holy Faith), furthered his training in the Portuguese language, and received catechesis in Saint Paul's College. On 14 April 1549, Xavier left Goa and made his way to Japan with a party of seven, including Anjirō as interpreter, and reached Malacca by 25 April.[6] There, they boarded a Chinese pirate junk since that was the only craft they could book that would take them to Kagoshima.[7]
Deus and Dainichi
The party landed in Kagoshima on August 15, 1549 and soon attracted attention as foreigners who came all the way from India, or
Recently, the circumstances of Anjirō's translation have been complicated by scholars, including
After Xavier
After less than a year in Kagoshima, Xavier went to Kyoto in hopes of converting the
See also
- Camille de Soyécourt
- Exploration of Asia
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-57075-701-3.
- ^ Butler, Rev. Alban. "St Francis Xavier, Confessor, Apostle Of The Indies". The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints, Vol. III. ewtn.com. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ Not to be confused with Captain Jorge Álvares, the explorer of the Chinese coast, who died in 1521. See Lidin (2002), p.169 note 22.
- ISBN 9781611461497.
- ISBN 9781608331482.
- ISBN 9788791114120.
- ^ Boxer, C. R. (1951). The Christian Century in Japan: 1549–1650. University of California Press. p. 36. GGKEY:BPN6N93KBJ7.
- ^ Lidin (2002), p.114.
- ISBN 9780521223553.
- ^ Elisonas (1991), p. 309.
- ^ Sanneh (2015), p. 169.
- ISBN 9780226412351.
- ^ Josephson (2012), p. 26
- ^ Lidin (2002), p.115.
- ^ Elisonas (1991), p. 303.
- ISBN 9781608331635.
Further reading
- Cabezas, Antonio (1995): The Iberian century Japan. The Spanish-Portuguese presence in Japan (1543-1643). Valladolid: Secretariat Publications, University of Valladolid. ISBN 84-7762-452-6.