2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Diego Collado and the Ars grammaticae Japonicae linguae
| Project/Area Number |
18K12215
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 01040:History of thought-related
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
DONAS ANTONIO 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (90805665)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | Missionary linguistics / Neo-Latin / Diego Collado / Dominican Order / Catholic missions / Textual criticism / Spanish Golden Age / Edo Period |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
My research on the Spanish Dominican friar Diego Collado (ca. 1587-1641) and his Ars grammaticae Japonicae linguae (1632) has accomplished two main objectives. First, the archival research in several Spanish libraries and archives in relation to Diego Collado’s life and works has been very fruitful. It has shed a new light on the place and importance of Collado in the history of the relationships between Spain and Japan and on the lasting influence of his works on Japanese language. The second goal has been the critical edition of all the materials related to the Ars grammaticae Japonicae linguae, that is, the 1632 Latin text printed in Rome and its Spanish modern translation, two different 17th-century manuscript versions previous to the Latin printing in Spanish language, and a late 17th-century Spanish translation of the Latin text. The edition is accompanied by an analysis of the different textual stages and a thorough annotation of the most relevant aspects of the texts.
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| Free Research Field |
History of ideas
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Diego Collado’s works on Japanese language represent a key moment in the history of the relations between the Western world and Japan and in the history of ideas. Specifically, Collado's Ars grammaticae was the chief reference on Japanese language for more than two centuries of European scholarship
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