El sacrificio de Javier y su visión para introducir el cristianismo en Japón. Las desavenencias y similitudes en el intercambio filosófico y religioso de los jesuitas en sus primeros días en Japón

Efraín Villamor Herrero

doi:10.3989/hs.2019.009

Authors

Efraín Villamor Herrero Yamaguchi Prefectural University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8274-3750

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/hs.2019.009

Keywords:

first dissensions, Jesuits’ Japanese learning, cultural-linguistic gap, debates of Yamaguchi, interaction with the new believers

Abstract

Missionaries first arrived in Japan in 1549 with a local interpreter who favored the use of Buddhist terms. This assisted in the rapid integration of the missionaries, as Xavier intended with his acculturation plan. Consequently, the Japanese considered them to be a modern sect of Buddhism. Regardless of the priority of adaptation, from the outset Xavier aimed to triumph over the powerful local religion, Buddhism, principally by criticizing idolatry and sodomy. Everything of the Xavier’s accomodation plan was a temporary approach for first clearing the path of the mission in Japan.

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