https://nanban.pt/research/ The most comprehensive multilingual resource on the Nanban period of Japanese-European exchange (1543–1650). en Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:36:09 +0000 https://nanban.pt/research/zampol-dortia-2024-failing-mission/ https://nanban.pt/research/zampol-dortia-2024-failing-mission/ The best study yet of the mission's most reviled superior: Zampol D'Ortia reads Cabral through Jesuit salvation theology rather than caricature, and this open-access monograph turns a stock villain into the key to understanding why Valignano's accommodation policy was needed at all. Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://nanban.pt/research/gonzalez-bolado-2026-letters-from-exile/ https://nanban.pt/research/gonzalez-bolado-2026-letters-from-exile/ A fresh angle on the decades after the expulsion: the Jesuits kept producing knowledge about a Japan they could no longer enter, through informant networks across East Asia and annual letters written from exile — essential context for the aftermath of 1639. Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://nanban.pt/research/triplett-2025-japan-early-modern-world/ https://nanban.pt/research/triplett-2025-japan-early-modern-world/ A collected volume that treats translation — of scripture, of objects, of Japan itself — as the machinery of the early modern encounter; the chapters on the Jesuit mission press and on Japanese agency in translating Christianity bear directly on how the Nanban century actually worked. Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000