Portuguese chronicles and Livro das Moncoes as sources to study Asian regional history

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26704007
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Historical studies in general
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Oka Mihoko 東京大学, 史料編纂所, 准教授 (30361653)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 南蛮貿易

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study was clarifying the usefulness of Portuguese historical official records and compiled documentations in order to study Asian regional history. First we aimed to publish a catalogue of the Monsoon Book in ANTT in Lisbon and it is still under going. A part of the catalogue will be published in the end of the fiscal year 2018 by use of another grant of JSPS. We published a book in Japanese "Japanese Slavery in the Age of Expansion " in 2017. In the following year, a monograph "The Nanban Trade" by Mihoko Oka will be published in English.

Free Research Field

歴史学