Hasta los confines de Japón: un manuscrito inédito sobre el viaje de Jerónimo de Angelis a la isla de Hokkaidô (1618).

In 1618 the Italian Jesuit Jerónimo de Angelis traveled to Ezo, now Hokkaidô, an island located north of Japan and which, at that time, was an uncharted territory for both, Europeans and Japanese. The objective of this journey was to assess the suitability of this land and its inhabitants, the Ainu ethnicity, to receive Christianity. This article analyzes the report that De Angelis wrote about his trip to inform the superiors of the Society of Jesus in Rome. This document, unpublished until now, contains detailed information about the livelihood, character and spirituality of the Ainu people, which, in addition to being of great value for the study of Japanese Christianity, can be considered as an early example of modern ethnographic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]