Handbook of Japanese Christian Writers
Mark Williams, Van Gessel, Yamane Michihiro (eds)
- Title
- A Japanese Encounter with Christianity
- Subtitle
- The Memoirs of Takeda Kiyoko
- Author
- Takeda Kiyoko
- Translator
- Vanessa Ward
- Price
- € 104,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789048565740
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 05 - 03 - 2025
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
Note on Transliteration and Translation
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Translator’s Acknowledgements
Translator’s Introduction
Prologue: Encounters
1. My Home Village and Mother
2. My Schooling
3. The First International Conference of Christian Students
4. Europe at the Outbreak of War
5. Student Life in America
6. Wartime Japan
7. The Intellectual Atmosphere after the War
8. My Encounter with Ch. Yukio
9. New Friendships in Postwar Asia
10. The Beginning of the World Council of Churches
11. Towards the New International Christian University
12. China after the Revolution
13. Recollections of the Japan America Committee for Intellectual Interchange
14. Christianity and Japanese Culture (1)—Toward a History of Modern Japan
15. Christianity and Japanese Culture (2)—Protestants and the Elevation of Women’s Status
16. Christianity and Japanese Culture (3)—Research on the Emperor System
17. Christianity and Japanese Culture (4)—The Idea of Something Beyond Oneself
18. Hidden Patterns of Japanese Culture
19. Memories of Europe
20. Farewell to Ch. Yukio
Conclusion: Gratitude for the Blessing of “Encounters”
Afterword
Takeda’s Principal Publications
Bibliography
Chronology
Glossary
Index
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Translator’s Acknowledgements
Translator’s Introduction
Prologue: Encounters
1. My Home Village and Mother
2. My Schooling
3. The First International Conference of Christian Students
4. Europe at the Outbreak of War
5. Student Life in America
6. Wartime Japan
7. The Intellectual Atmosphere after the War
8. My Encounter with Ch. Yukio
9. New Friendships in Postwar Asia
10. The Beginning of the World Council of Churches
11. Towards the New International Christian University
12. China after the Revolution
13. Recollections of the Japan America Committee for Intellectual Interchange
14. Christianity and Japanese Culture (1)—Toward a History of Modern Japan
15. Christianity and Japanese Culture (2)—Protestants and the Elevation of Women’s Status
16. Christianity and Japanese Culture (3)—Research on the Emperor System
17. Christianity and Japanese Culture (4)—The Idea of Something Beyond Oneself
18. Hidden Patterns of Japanese Culture
19. Memories of Europe
20. Farewell to Ch. Yukio
Conclusion: Gratitude for the Blessing of “Encounters”
Afterword
Takeda’s Principal Publications
Bibliography
Chronology
Glossary
Index
Takeda Kiyoko
A Japanese Encounter with Christianity
The Memoirs of Takeda Kiyoko
Meet Takeda Kiyoko (1917–2018), a remarkable woman, whose life-course defies the stereotypes of Japanese women in modern Japan. Told in her own words, these memoirs focus on “encounters”— the individuals whom she met in her travels to Asia, the United States and Europe, and through her involvement in organisations such as the YWCA and World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), and the progressive Japanese thinkers that came up in her research (the encounter between Christianity and Japanese thinkers of the modern period (from 1867)). Takeda introduces us to her mother, whose thoughts on women’s higher education and marriage were ahead of her times, and to her encounter with Christianity at the Christian girls’ school she attended after Japanese high school. Her intellectual world expanded with her involvement with Christian organisations such as the YWCA, and the WSCF, and when she went to the USA as an exchange student.
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