{"product_id":"europeens-et-japonais-traite-sur-les-contradictions-et-differences-de-moeurs","title":"Europeans and Japanese, a treatise on contradictions and differences in morals.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \"Magellane\" collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn 1543, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to discover Japan, where they immediately established commercial ties. Francis Xavier established a Jesuit mission there in 1549. In 1597, the first persecutions began. The \"Christian century\" ended in the 1640s and 1650s: the country then closed in on itself, and its territory was closed to all foreign presence until 1853.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eFather Luís Fróis, SJ (1532-1597), who lived in the Japanese archipelago for more than thirty years, made a comparative description of Japanese and European customs in 1585. A series of ethnological snapshots that brilliantly and humorously describe the main aspects of daily life, it is also a literary exercise of great modernity – not without evoking Georges Perec – where an unexpected discourse on us and others develops, throughout notes assembled in chapters on men, women, horses, children, religion, weapons, diseases, music, ships, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe manuscript of this singular text, a small volume composed of 40 sheets of Japanese paper measuring 16 x 22 cm, was only found in 1946 by Josef Franz Schütte in the Madrid archives. In 1993, the Magellane collection published the French translation, signed by Xavier de Castro, accompanied by a very extensive critical apparatus (the first edition in a European country). We have reprinted this translation, revised, in a pocket format accessible to a wider audience, and with a preface that Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote in 2003 – but stripped of its critical apparatus. The notes have been reduced to the essentials.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42748268937456,"sku":"25694","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/products\/europeens-et-japonais.jpg?v=1650981184","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/europeens-et-japonais-traite-sur-les-contradictions-et-differences-de-moeurs","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}