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Created page with "*''Date: 1695'' *''Chinese/Japanese'': 帝京景物略 ''(Dìjīng jǐngwù lüè / Teikyou keibutsu ryaku)'' The ''Dìjīng jǐngwù lüè'' was a guidebook to [[Beijing..."
*''Date: [[1695]]''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 帝京景物略 ''(Dìjīng jǐngwù lüè / Teikyou keibutsu ryaku)''
The ''Dìjīng jǐngwù lüè'' was a guidebook to [[Beijing]], published in China.
When copies of the book were imported into Japan at [[Nagasaki]], they were confiscated by the authorities on account of their Christian content (in discussing the sites of the city, the book mentions the former site of a Catholic cathedral, and the site of the tomb of [[Matteo Ricci]]). Much documentation survives today detailing the process of hearings and discussions surrounding the question of whether to destroy and ban the book, serving as a useful source for historians to understand the book censorship process at Nagasaki more broadly.
In this case, the ship's owner and captain were barred for life from entering Japan.
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==References==
*[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 73.
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 帝京景物略 ''(Dìjīng jǐngwù lüè / Teikyou keibutsu ryaku)''
The ''Dìjīng jǐngwù lüè'' was a guidebook to [[Beijing]], published in China.
When copies of the book were imported into Japan at [[Nagasaki]], they were confiscated by the authorities on account of their Christian content (in discussing the sites of the city, the book mentions the former site of a Catholic cathedral, and the site of the tomb of [[Matteo Ricci]]). Much documentation survives today detailing the process of hearings and discussions surrounding the question of whether to destroy and ban the book, serving as a useful source for historians to understand the book censorship process at Nagasaki more broadly.
In this case, the ship's owner and captain were barred for life from entering Japan.
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==References==
*[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 73.
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]