Rodrigues the Interpreter: An Early Jesuit in Japan and ChinaChronicles the life of Jesuit João Rodrigues (1558-1633), who spent more than half his life in Japan and China. Rodrigues won the friendship of Japan's two succesive supreme rulers, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu; took an active role in the silk trade between China and Japan; and, serving as the principle interpreter between East and West, was for some years the most influential European in the entire country. |
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