キリシタンばん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of キリシタンばん – see the following entry.
キリシタン版
[noun] (history, Christianity, literature, grammar, lexicography) prose, grammar and vocabulary literature written and printed by Portuguese Jesuits in Japan during the late 16th and early 17th century
(This term, キリシタンばん (kirishitanban), is an alternative spelling of the above term.)