Essays on the Modern Japanese Church (Gendai Nihon kyokai shiron), published in 1906, was the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in Meiji Japan. Ya
The first book-length study to explore the links between Christianity and modern Japanese literature, this book analyses the process of conversion of nine canon
Japan closed its doors to foreigners for over two hundred years because of religious and political instability caused by Christianity. By 1859, foreign resident