著者

村田 昌巳

出版者

サレジオ工業高等専門学校

雑誌

サレジオ工業高等専門学校研究紀要 (ISSN:18812538)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.34, pp.19-23, 2008

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Missionaries in Japan have always had to overcome language difficulties to fulfill their tasks, and consequently they have in many cases produced insightful analyses of grammatical characteristics and vocabularies of the Japanese language since the time of Saint Francis Xavier in the sixteenth century. This paper presents introductory remarks about the research on Fr. Vincenzo Cimatti, who brought the Salesian society of Roman Catholic Christianity to Japan in 1926, and his great efforts toward the Japanese language acquisition. The study on the extraordinary life and work of Fr. Vincenzo Cimatti will contribute to the research field of inter-cultural communication since the field still waits for advancement of historical explorations.