ON THE THRESHOLD OF JAPAN ：GASPAR DO AMARAL ,THE 'JESUIT NETWORK' AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE JAPANESE MISSION AND THE JAPANESE DIASPORA TO THE DEPLOYMENT AND IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE JESUIT MISSION IN TUN KIM卡斯巴爾‧多‧阿馬拉爾以及日本傳教團對耶穌會傳教團在越南設立的貢獻
This article examines how the Jesuit mission in Japan was established and consolidated thanks to a trans-imperial "network" articulated by Gaspar do Amaral, framing this activity within the broader set of economic, spiritual, and institutional connections of the Society of Jesus. Drawing on document...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40044/2424 |
| Summary: | This article examines how the Jesuit mission in Japan was established and consolidated thanks to a trans-imperial "network" articulated by Gaspar do Amaral, framing this activity within the broader set of economic, spiritual, and institutional connections of the Society of Jesus. Drawing on documentation already identified in archives such as the National Library of the Ajuda Palace (Lisbon) and the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (Rome), the author proposes a historiographical reading centered on financing and logistics: the Japanese mission appears as dependent on revenues generated in the Estado da Índia, especially in Bassein and the rents associated with the *caçabés* of various localities along the Indian coast, as well as on monetary contributions diverted from the revenues of the Mumbai archipelago. Methodologically, the study articulates accounting series and internal inventories of the Province of India (e.g., summaries of colleges, residences, and expenses) to reconstruct resource flows, budgetary tensions, and forms of fund mobilization.
The main conclusions emphasize that the viability of the mission in Japan cannot be explained solely by local dynamics, but rather by the interdependence among missions, colleges, and economic circuits: the contribution of the Japanese mission and the Japanese diaspora emerges as a decisive factor both for the "unfolding" and for the institutional "settlement" in Tun Kim. The text thus demonstrates that the Jesuit expansion into Japan was sustained by global financial engineering, in which Macao and the Indian network functioned as essential platforms. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |