Rodrigues the Interpreter

by Michael Cooper and Michael Cooper

Book Overview

Portuguese Jesuit Joao Rodrigues won the friendship of Japan's two successive supreme rulers, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu; took an active role in the silk trade between China and Japan; and, serving as the main interpreter between East and West, was one of the country's most influential Europeans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0834803194
• ISBN13: 9780834803190
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Weatherhill
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"