The Myōtei Dialogues is the first complete English translation of Fukansai Habian's Myōtei mondō (1605), one of the most important works of early Japanese Christianity.
Richard Bowring, Ph.D. (1973), is Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge. His books include Mori Ogai and the Modernization of Japanese Culture (1979), The Diary of Lady Murasaki (1996) and The Religious Traditions of Japan, 500-1600 (2005).James Baskind, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor of Japanese Intellectual History at Nagoya City University. A specialist in Japanese Buddhist history, recent publications have dealt with the theme of Buddhist-Christian polemics during the early Edo period.With contributions by John Breen and Hans Martin Krämer
