Michael Cooper (historian)

Michael Cooper (1930-31 March 2018[1]) was an American historian. A Jesuit,[2] Cooper has written extensively on 15th- and 16th-century encounters between Jesuit missionaries and Japan. He was editor of the journal Monumenta Nipponica in Tokyo for 26 years (1971-1996) and was also formerly a president of the Asiatic Society of Japan.[3][4][5]

Works

  • They came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan 1543-1640, University of California Press, 1965
  • The Southern barbarians : the first Europeans in Japan, Tokyo ; Palo Alto, Calif. : Kodansha International in cooperation with Sophia University, 1971
  • This Island of Japon: Joao Rodrigues’s Account of 16th Century Japan, Kodansha International, 1973
  • Rodrigues the Interpreter: An Early Jesuit in Japan and China, Weatherhill, 1974
  • Exploring Kamakura : a guide for the curious traveler, Weatherhill, 1979
  • Catalogue of rare books in the Library of the Japan Foundation, Office for the Japanese Studies Center, The Foundation, 1986.
  • 'The Early Europeans and Tea', in Paul Varley and Kumakura Isao, eds., Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989
  • 'Early Western-style Paintings in Japan', in John Breen and Mark Williams, eds., Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses, St Martin's Press, 1996
  • The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590: The Journey of Four Samurai Boys through Portugal, Spain and Italy, Global Oriental, 2005.

References

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ Thomas W. Barker, review of The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590, Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 6:1 (2008), pp.103-105
  3. ↑ Contributors to Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire
  4. ↑ Rogala, Joseph (2001). A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. p. 40.
  5. ↑ "History of The Asiatic Society of Japan". The Asiatic Society of Japan. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
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