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Japanese: 妙貞問答 - みょうていもんどう

Written by Iruman (Iruma) Fukansai Habian, a Japanese Jesuit who was a former Zen monk and later became a Christian. 3 volumes. Written in 1605. A doctrine book for Christians. It features two nuns, Myoshu and Yutei, and describes the process in which Yutei answers Myoshu's questions and converts him to Christianity. The first volume criticizes Buddhism, the second volume denounces Shintoism and Confucianism, and the third volume seeks to clarify Christian doctrine. Although its name appears in the Razan Bunshu, it has not been found and was long thought to be a lost book, but was discovered in the Jingu Bunko in 1918. Although the section on Buddhism in the first volume is missing, it has been revealed by Masaharu Anesaki that a similar section can be found in the Buddhist law debate in the Kansei Confiscation Letter. There is also a French translation by P. Ambelclaude. (→Hatei Ushi)

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Japanese:

元禅僧，のちキリシタンとなった日本人イエズス会士，イルマン (伊留満)不干斎ハビアン著。3巻。慶長 10 (1605) 年作。キリシタンの教義書。妙秀，幽貞という2人の尼を登場させ，幽貞が妙秀の質問に答えながら妙秀を入信させていく過程として書かれている。上巻は仏教を批判し，中巻では神儒を破邪し，下巻でキリシタン教理の顕正をはかるもの。『羅山文集』にその名がみえながら見当らず，長く逸書と考えられていたが，1918年神宮文庫で発見された。上巻の仏道の部を逸するが，ほぼそれにあたるものが『寛政没収教書』中の仏法論にみられることが，姉崎正治により明らかにされている。 P.アンベルクロードによるフランス語訳もある。 (→破提宇子 ) 　

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