Seiyō Kibun
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The Seiyō Kibun (西洋紀聞) is a 3-volume study of the Occident by Japanese politician and scholar Arai Hakuseki based on conversations with Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti. The first volume is a collection of conversations with Sidotti. The second volume is a study of "the five continents" (
Roman Catholicism which includes some of Hakuseki's critical notes on Christianity, as well as a few comparisons he makes between Christianity and Buddhism. It was written in or around 1713, and published in 1882.[1]
Translation of a key dialogue in the work can be found in Jason Josephson, The Invention of Religion in Japan, Appendix 1, p. 263-264.
References
- ^ Josephson, The Invention of Religion in Japan, p.43-44.
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