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wo men re ached the top of 26,668 fpot Manaslu Mountain in the H-inia^yゃs recently b^m^g the fぱth party to sc"e the peals. A 《0ui"th w細an member of the ex-B^^9虹iiOTP,fid^l^ile,h兮U pi1)8: to establish a' high-aititu-de(qamp «and is presumed defd.
The ti'io, one a mirae andtw6 factory clerks, <?onquered the pe^k aided by «i sHei^a the sa咖ti加e a; team of18 Japanese men fmdQneリ.S. cii—n aband6ned tliek attempt/cUiini-ingニthも—CiliinbーMVfistoにdang^2^(K us.
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Sほtietnth C^iitury Europeiin Printed Works on tlve First Japanese. Mission toきrope, A Des« ipt We - Bibliography—b か riani Boscairo. £ょBHU, Leiden, 1973.196 pa,r illustrated* 48guilders.
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In February1582 two teen咖 geKyuahu nobles, repress anting th^ Christian .daimyo of Bungo, OimUra andA^inia,挑t ^ilfrom Nagasaki-with two的ually youthful J&pan^e companion^ &nd beぉ抓ihelong voyage to EurO" pe. The expediti6ivハ,imder thedi脚1;ion of theJ终uit mf-ssionanes a恥ゆpurpose w錄 tp draw Eurひ;pe必attention to the i mportaiI be and nee43 of tlie Japanesemisei"nゅdおimpre66 the younglさgネtes with the spl©^ ndom'.. of: Renaissanice -, .]^U;rope^ B"ng under Portugese piatrona、 the party travelte4 via /Goa and took thもcu^tcimairy' yか ,ars to rewh Lisbon,
■After a ra饰eiv qiii&t stajHt'.at that cosmopolitan city, the boys began to attrftct a bkze of putn lieity. Th兮y were treate<Lto ban-■qu&ts, f笨reworks,'.miUtaTy p加a" des, concerts, rece;piions, artilery salut&s, peaゅg church bell^ and hunting parties, a a city after city vied to outdo its rivals in the welcome extended tQ the 卿tic youths fro m the — East. •They were::'twic!e.i^ceWed in:aK udience by Phi lip -II; they met Gregory'XILI hv a., solemn, re option at Rome, atte-iided'his funo" ral a few day多later, and were: present^ kt 'thらcoronation of hぉ successor, Sixtiis V. They then made' & triufnpha广profiri:eSs 'through Geれoa, \^enice (where Tintoretto wゅcommissioned t(> 'pa> int their portraits), Padua'
They finゅy sailed from Lisbon in August1586柳d, after a dela, in Macao, reached Nagasaki in July1590, eight years ffter their originaldeixa^ture. In the foilcowing ^>rin|gr幼ey travelled \ip to Kyo^ and were rまived 'in —emri- audiepce by *3[^i)yotomi Hidey(^shi, who plied .t;l^ein with: questiopsへabol;f their. Etiropeaii travels.
Arth6ugh the boys: wereiiot the':firゅJapanese reach Eu-roー,キhey weie' uriduobtedly the ねret tomakeanysort of personal imp act there. Just how mueh of a辨nsatiort they unintentio-naily cius^ is admirably iUu, Jtrat^, in Prof. Boscaro,s pre^ serit bcfoks, in which sh^p^ii-stackinギylists -noless than 76 Eiiropeain Works, 'pi"inted '"t-we^ i585.ゃndl咖幼d. dealing wHhsome stageゃr aspect of the iBn>t>a^y — "an astonishing >di-t|i>rialbooitt," asthe. authoriig,
So印e of these yrorks arelittle more than pamphlets of a few IXages» while other みcontaining as wellas generalnews the Japanese mission taken from Jesuはletters, a re books in their
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works which .a'Te:to: ,te fo'und 'in
ugh she herseぱhas—n imabl^e to (track ^hem jown. In vjiew of the throughness of her i^search 抑d the extent of her tま4s around Europe^ an id Japanese iib]^ari《e, it is moreゆan prob* able fill at most of the^e pyWi coitions nev枕'in fact exi;jted but originated from !the corrupted titles of itlieii'w^rks, dutifully, passed down frひm onもbibliography to anothet ami thus erroneously inoopomted iひto the canon of writiiifiTS about thらembassy.
This is a specialized and most useful''ref柳nce .'bpak, a'ttrac-' tively -'producゃd, as regards .both COひ tent and format. One can only -hope I that it 'rぉin'esents the first Stage in the production of效 really authoritative and cひmprC" sive account of the expeddtion, from the timeiゃwas dreamed up by Vぉlignano down to the uレ tiiriate抑<1Strangly赠iant fa^ tもニQrthefour boys (one <Ued while stillyoun^; an other renounced >Ms Christian religion,a-nothもr suffered as a martyr for while, the fourth died in eidle in Mao^o).
Anybody wishing to prodvuie a doctoralthesis one^irlyJapane-se-Wもster1^ relationsiieedloo)c no further:幼this biWiogra|)hy a-mpiy shows, prii^ted material alxmpds, While is great dea^ of f"rther.' infor^x^.tion :.'cai^ be..pb-.
ente inぉurc^pean &i:chiv6s» A!tli-ough' thケメirst.i^rt of Lub ぉ,meticiQuslycomiiiled . diajy of the Venture was publUhied 多n1942 undei: thetUle La Pre-
Euro",1582"l靴,块aeis9j14 pari; of 'hisaccひimt, decking with tぉreturn voyage aiid theaudi-纽ce with Hiぉy05hi, has yet to &pp^t^ In《act, the〜t, - and pr?u: tic allyふnl,,)ejxprt of the emba^y in English in the iwen-ty-pagesummwryin Donald F. Lacii,Mi汰おthe Making of £-uropもI (19^). Vajuable acc-6丰3 have been puUisbed in Japanese, it isキruey Ult the f\ill story has by nomeans yet be eh tol(L
The eralMtssy start€d put on Us eight-year jouiney. inand so there Are stillnine yean to go before tb^ fourth centenary of its departure, & most suitAb> le time to biin豕out the standard work on the expedition. And in view of Miss Uoscaro'a extensive rcwmrch in thiさsub* jectj w6 may hoi^ th" the pre^ sent work reprea幼te the h>>" d, oevme of the bMKjuet to come.
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