Events

Time: Tuesday, August 6, 2024, from 5:00PM to 6:30PM (JST)
Venue: DAICEL Studio, 1st floor of Science Commons Bld. (Center for Education in Liberal Arts and Sciences), Osaka University Toyonaka Campus (and online via Zoom)
Languages: Japanese

On Tuesday, August 6, a newly-approved Incubator-Supported Project will hold a workshop titled “Preliminary Analysis of Document Fragments Recently Discovered at the Bibliothèque de Toulouse in France”.

Registration: Please register from the URL or QR code on the flyer. The registration period for this event has ended.

【Presentation】
KISHIMOTO Emi (Professor, Osaka University)
NAKANO Haruka (Assistant Professor, Sophia University)

【Comments】
TOYOSHIMA Masayuki (Professor Emeritus, Sophia University)
SHIRAI Jun (Professor, Hiroshima University)

【Summary】
This workshop will discuss preliminary reports on drafts of the early Japanese–Portuguese dictionary Vocabulario da Lingoa de Japam, produced in Nagasaki between 1603 and 1604. These documents, previously unknown, reveal significant details of the dictionary’s editing process. They also include early examples of Japanese print type in kanji and kana. The documents merit thorough study as important new sources on the history of Christianity in Japan.