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Japanese: アビラ・ヒロン - ＡｖｉｌａＧｉｒｏｎ，Ｂｅｒｎａｒｄｉｎｏｄｅ

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. Spanish merchant. Arrived in Hirado in 1594. Lived in Nagasaki and traveled to Southeast Asia. Returned to Japan in 1607 and stayed in Japan until at least 1619, but his whereabouts after that are unknown. His writings on the changing history, geography and customs of Japan from Toyotomi Hideyoshi to Tokugawa Ieyasu are rich in content and extremely rare for writings by a layman who was not a missionary. <Works> "The Kingdom of Japan" translated by Sakuma Tadashi, Aida Yu, and Iwao Seiichi <References> Okamoto Yoshitomo "The Age of Christianity - Its Culture and Trade"

(Masakazu Asami)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
スペイン人貿易商人。文禄3(1594)年,平戸に到着。長崎に居住し,東南アジア方面を往来。慶長12(1607)年には日本に戻り,少なくとも元和5(1619)年までは日本に滞在していたが,その後の消息は不明。彼が執筆した豊臣秀吉から徳川家康のころまでの移り変わる日本の歴史,地理,風俗に関する著作は,内容が豊富であり,宣教師ではない俗人の著述としては,極めて珍しいものである。<著作>佐久間正,会田由,岩生成一訳『日本王国記』<参考文献>岡本良知『キリシタンの時代―その文化と貿易』

(浅見雅一)

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