A Christian samurai : the trials of Baba Bunkō / William J. Farge, SJ ; Foreword by Kevin M. Doak.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 300 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813228525
- 0813228522
- Baba, Bunkō, 1718-1759
- Baba, Bunkō, 1718-1759. Tōdai Edo hyaku bakemono
- Catholic Church -- Japan -- History
- Baba, Bunkō, 1718-1759
- Catholic Church
- Church history
- Japan -- Church history -- To 1868
- Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600-1868
- RELIGION / Christianity / History
- HISTORY / Asia / Japan
- Church history
- Social conditions
- Japan
- To 1868
- 275.2/07092 23
- BR1306 .F37 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Deus restored -- Tokugawa Christianity -- Popular games and monster stories -- Raindrops falling in the forest -- Baba Bunkō's political and social dissent -- The decline of Tokugawa neo-Confucianism -- Baba Bunkō's literary heritage -- Kabuki actors, monks, and courtesans -- The breakdown of social order -- The Christian question -- Contemporary Edo: an album of one hundred monsters by Baba Bunkō.
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