![]() ![]() This Japanese version, written in the voices of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene and sublimating maternal and erotic sentiment respectively, displays competent use of a stream-of-consciousness poetics originating in renga linked verse and often used to express states of aesthetic derangement in the noh. This piece, entitled Some Dialogues on Some Instruments of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, is part of a large body of Devotio Moderna meditational literature which contemplates Jesus’ suffering and death through the eyes of bystanders. ![]() In this chapter, we will explore a devotional text whose poetics illustrate the challenges inherent in adapting the cultural products of Latin Christendom to late–sixteenth-century Japan. ![]() キリスト両性説と身内敬語、奪格のヨリと羅文訓読:バレト写本『受難道具問答』の研究 So far in Volume Two we have examined the sociopolitical functions of Japanese Jesuit narrative literature in the Barreto Miscellany, as well as its relationship to other Japanese literature of its own time, situating it in part as yet another descendent of the kōwaka ballad like the picture scroll, puppet play, and noh examined in Volume One. ![]()
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