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Cultural asset discovered in Kanda used bookstore

TOKYO, Japan - Cultural Affairs Agency studies have shown that a used bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda district obtained a book on Christianity (shown in photo) that is cultural asset of national importance. The book was printed in 1607 on a metal press brought by the Jesuits, and was phonetically written in Japanese using Roman characters. It was used by foreign missionaries to preach to the Japanese.

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(2)Cultural asset discovered in Kanda used bookstore

TOKYO, Japan - Cultural Affairs Agency studies have shown that a used bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda district obtained a book on Christianity (shown in photo) that is cultural asset of national importance. The book was printed in 1607 on a metal press brought by the Jesuits, and was phonetically written in Japanese using Roman characters. It was used by foreign missionaries to preach to the Japanese. (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea plan to register records of goodwill mission on UNESCO list

Officials from Japan and South Korea pose for a group photo in Busan, South Korea, on Dec. 8, 2015, during a meeting to report a plan to submit a joint application to register about 320 documents recording the "Joseon Tongsinsa" from 1607-1811 on the UNESCO Memory of the World list by March next year. The goodwill envoys of Korea's Joseon Dynasty were sent to Japan for about 200 years between the 17th and 19th centuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Descendent of 1607 Korean envoy to Japan stands under ancestor's poem

Yo Un Jun, an 11th-generation descendent of Yo U Gil, chief envoy of a Korean diplomatic mission dispatched by the Yi dynasty to Japan in 1607, shakes hands with the master priest of Seiken-ji temple in the city of Shizuoka, central Japan, on May 16, 2015, under a framed Chinese poem (above) left by his ancestor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Descendent of Korean mission envoy joins Seoul-Tokyo "friendship walk"

Yo Un Jun, the 11th generation descendent of Yo U Gil, chief delegate of a Korean diplomatic mission dispatched by the Yi dynasty to Japan in 1607, participates in a "friendship walk" from Seoul to Tokyo, started on April 1, 2015, to follow the footsteps of the missions to Japan in the Edo period (1603-1867). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Descendent of 1607 Korean envoy to Japan shows reference materials

Yo Un Jun, a descendent of Yo Ugil, chief Korean envoy dispatched by the Yi dynasty to Japan in 1607, shows reference materials related to his ancestor in Seoul on March 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Temple shows board inscribed with Korean envoy's poem from 1607

A priest at the Seigen-ji temple in the city of Shizuoka, central Japan, points to a wooden board (above) inscribed with a Chinese-style poem written by Yo Ugil, chief Korean envoy dispatched by the Yi dynasty to Japan in 1607, on March 27, 2015. ==Kyodo

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Board inscribed with poem by Korean envoy to Japan in 1607 on show

A wooden board bearing the inscription of a Chinese-style poem written by Yo Ugil, chief Korean envoy dispatched by the Yi dynasty to Japan in 1607, is exhibited at the Seigen-ji temple in the city of Shizuoka, central Japan, on March 27, 2015. ==Kyodo

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Ikegami Honmonji Temple

Honmonji Temple is the main temple of the Nichiren Sect of Japanese Buddhism, built on the site of Nichiren's death in 1288. The five-story pagoda visible in the back was constructed by the 2nd Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in 1607. Today, it is the only pagoda in Japan conveying the Japanese-Chinese building style of the Momoyama Period and the oldest five-story pagoda in Tokyo. The building in the foreground is the Kodo (Drum Hall).==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐2‐0]

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Kumamoto Castle

Built by Kato Kiyomasa, Kumamoto Castle has large and small castle towers and is famous for its strong stone walls. It was completed in 1607. The torii is the entrance to Kato Kiyomasa Shrine, whiich was built within Kumamoto Castle in 1872 and called Nishikiyama Shrine. This photo is believed to be developed from the same negative as the photo in the Leiden University collection.==Date:unknown, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐2‐0]

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Daibutsu (the Great Buddha) of Kamakura

The Daibutsu (Great Buddha) in Kamakura was built in the 13th century in reaction to the Daibutsu in Nara. A symbol of political power in the east of Japan, it is a precious inheritance that reveals the popularity of the Pure Land Sect at that time. As early as 1607, Father Rodrigues paid a visit to the Daibutsu (in 1618, the English Captain Saris, also paid a visit).==Date:unknown, Place:Kamakura, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number1‐25‐0]

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Cultural asset discovered in Kanda used bookstore

TOKYO, Japan - Cultural Affairs Agency studies have shown that a used bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda district obtained a book on Christianity (shown in photo) that is cultural asset of national importance. The book was printed in 1607 on a metal press brought by the Jesuits, and was phonetically written in Japanese using Roman characters. It was used by foreign missionaries to preach to the Japanese. (Kyodo)