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Laures, John. Kirishitan bunko: A Manual of Books and Documents on the Early Christian Mission in Japan. 3rd. ed. Tokyo, Sophia University, 1957. xxiv, 536p. (Monumenta nipponica monographs, no. 5).
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Lists books, articles, documents and manuscripts covering missionary activity "from its beginnings to the first fifty years after the reopening of Japan to foreign intercourse" (Preface). The arrangement is by publisher with a separate list for doubtful works. Author, title and subject index. Special reference to the principal libraries in Japan and more particularly to the collection at Sophia University, Tokyo. Appendix of ancient maps of the Far East, especially Japan.