About the Author

Reinier H. Hesselink has published many articles on Japanese history in English, Dutch, Japanese, and Portuguese journals and other scholarly publications. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA.

Reviews

“clearly the product of countless hours of painstaking historical investigation. The resultant study is nothing if not a model of thorough research...Hesselink’s book amounts virtually to a gazetteer of the early Catholic missions to Japan”—Journal of American-East Asian Relations; “a persuasive and illustrative story...Hesselink deserves considerable credit for even undertaking this monumental task. His meticulously researched and readable text certainly advances the stud of Christianity and foreign trade in early Nagasaki”—Monumenta Nipponica.