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FROIS (Pe. Luís). KULTURGEGENSÄTZE Europa-Japan (1585): Tratado em que se Contem Muito Susinta e Abreviadamente Algumas Contradições e Diferenças de Custumes Antre a Gente de Europa e Esta Provincia de Japão. Tokyo. 1955. - FROIS (Pe. Luís) KULTURGEGENSÄTZE Europa-Japan (1585): Tratado em que se Contem Muito Susinta e Abreviadamente Algumas Contradições e Diferenças de Custumes Antre a Gente de Europa e Esta Provincia de Japão . Erstmalige, kritische ausgabe des eigenhandigen portugiesischen Frois-textes in der Biblioteca de la Academia de la Histria in Madrid mit deutscher übersetzung, einleitung und anmerkungen von Josef Franz Schütte. Tokyo: Sophia Universitat, 1955. XXXVI, 290, [2] pp.: il.; 265 mm. First scientific edition of the Treatise Containing Very Succinctly and Briefly Some Contradictions and Differences of Customs between the People of Europe and this Province of Japan , written by the Jesuit Luís Fróis in 1585, based on the autograph manuscript preserved at the Royal Academy of History in Madrid. Despite the German title, Kulturgegensätze Europa-Japan (1585) , the edition is bilingual, publishing the original Portuguese text in its entirety alongside the German translation, accompanied by an introduction and notes by Josef Franz Schütte, in the Monumenta Nipponica series of Sophia University, Tokyo. Fróis' text, organized into thematic chapters, systematically confronts hundreds of contrasting customs and traditions between Europeans and Japanese, from clothing to food, from social behaviors to gender roles, constituting one of the earliest and most remarkable exercises in comparative ethnography produced by a European observer in the Far East. The manuscript circulated only within a restricted Jesuit circle until the 20th century, with this 1955 edition being the first to make it known in its entirety. A fundamental work for the study of Portuguese-Japanese relations and the cultural history of Japan during the Momoyama period. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate