Translation During the Christian Century in Japan

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2159
dc.contributor.author	Tollini Aldo
dc.title	Translation During the Christian Century in Japan. Christian Keywords in Japanese
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay presents examples of translation of keywords of the Christian doctrine translated by Jesuit missionaries during the so-called ‘Christian century’, when Europeans undertook the conversion of the Japanese, between the second half of the 16th century and the first part of the following. The purpose is to highlight the difficulties of translation between very distant and different cultures, and the strategies that were devised in order to overcome the problems.
dc.relation.ispartof	Translating Wor(l)ds
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-12-31
dc.dateAccepted	2018-09-10
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-07-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-311-3/translation-during-the-christian-century-in-japan/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-311-3/001
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9131
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-914X
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-312-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-311-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Christian lexicon
dc.subject	Christian lexicon
dc.subject	Jesuit missionaries
dc.subject	Jesuit missionaries
dc.subject	Kirishitanban
dc.subject	Kirishitanban
dc.subject	Medieval Japan
dc.subject	Medieval Japan
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Translation

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Translation During the Christian Century in Japan

Christian Keywords in Japanese

Aldo Tollini Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

This essay presents examples of translation of keywords of the Christian doctrine translated by Jesuit missionaries during the so-called ‘Christian century’, when Europeans undertook the conversion of the Japanese, between the second half of the 16th century and the first part of the following. The purpose is to highlight the difficulties of translation between very distant and different cultures, and the strategies that were devised in order to overcome the problems.

Pubblicato

31 Dicembre 2018

Accettato

10 Settembre 2018

Presentato

30 Luglio 2018

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-312-0

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-311-3

Keywords: Christian lexicon • Kirishitanban • Jesuit missionaries • Translation • Medieval Japan

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-311-3/001

Copyright: © 2018 Aldo Tollini. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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