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This is the first book-length study in English of the Japanese mission to Europe and provides important new insights into the work of the Jesuits in Japan and the nature of the legation's impact on late-sixteenth-century European perceptions of Japan.

Emerging in the English language during the 1590s, the etymological origins of the word "disaster" are found in désastre from Middle French (1560s) and disastro from Italian, meaning "ill-starred," with "dis-," a pejorative and "astro" meaning "star" or "planet"—from the Latin astrum and from the Greek ástron. The notion was of "an unfavorable aspect of a star or planet," a "malevolent astral influence," or a "calamity blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet."