A Christian samurai : the trials of Baba Bunkō /
William J. Farge, SJ ; Foreword by Kevin M. Doak.
- Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xxv, 300 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Deus restored -- Tokugawa Christianity -- Popular games and monster stories -- Raindrops falling in the forest -- Baba Bunkō's political and social dissent -- The decline of Tokugawa neo-Confucianism -- Baba Bunkō's literary heritage -- Kabuki actors, monks, and courtesans -- The breakdown of social order -- The Christian question -- Contemporary Edo: an album of one hundred monsters by Baba Bunkō.