Pagès - Léon Pagès

A French scholar of Japan. He worked as an editor for the magazine Le Univers in Paris, but while in China as an associate of the Beijing embassy, ​​he became interested in the history of Christian missionary work in Japan, and published two volumes of the Collected Letters of Xavier in 1855, as well as a Catalogue of Books Related to Japan (1859). He then published a revised edition of the Japanese Grammar by J. Hoffmann, written by J. D. Curtius, the chief of the Dutch trading post in Japan, and a Japanese Grammar (1861), which he used Christian grammar editions as a reference, as well as the Martyrdom of the Twenty-Six Saints of Japan (1862). He also published a French translation of the Japanese-Portuguese Dictionary published in Nagasaki in 1603 (Keicho 8), the Japanese-French Dictionary (1868), a History of the Japanese Christian Religion and its Historical Materials (1869-70), and other works. These works paved the way for subsequent Japanese studies.

[Arudo Ebisawa]

"The History of the Japanese Christian Religious Sect, translated by Kogoro Yoshida, three volumes (Iwanami Bunko)"

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フランス人日本学者。パリで『Le Univers』誌の編集に従っていたが、北京(ペキン)公使館付きとして清(しん)国に在留中、日本キリスト教布教史に関心をもち、1855年『ザビエル書簡集』二巻、さらに『日本関係図書目録』（1859）を編刊した。ついで在日オランダ商館長クルティウスJ. D. Curtiusによる『日本文典』のホフマンJ. Hoffmann増訂版にキリシタン版文典類を参考した『日本文典』（1861）、『日本二十六聖人殉教記』（1862）、さらに1603年（慶長8）長崎刊の『日葡(にっぽ)辞書』のフランス語訳『日仏辞典』（1868）、『日本キリシタン宗門史』と史料編（1869～70）その他を刊行。その後の日本学研究の基を開いた。

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『吉田小五郎訳『日本切支丹宗門史』全三巻（岩波文庫）』

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