You might already know this, but “amigo” was definitely “lover” at the time of the troubadors (13c). Today it’s just “friend” and never “boyfriend” (except perhaps in the old-fashioned adjective “amigado” = living together with your unmarried companion).

I’m uncertain of when the meaning shifted, and what it meant in the 16th century. From a quick search, I see that at least in Camões (16c) it’s already used as “friend”, including in such expressions as “a friend of peace” or “a friend to nature”.

I happen to want precisely a fac-simile of the Vocabulario, as well as the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam (aka 日本大文典 ). Would you recommend any editions? It’s a shame books published in Japan are so hard to acquire overseas.

Is it safe to assume that the Nippo Jisho is going to have been written by Leo after some sort of time traveling accident?

Carl, have you had been gone off reading the discussions on “will have had gone” in the linguablogosphere too?

Time travel is one of the contexts in which "will have had gone" might be idiomatic for me.

Re facsimiles: I have seen two in person. The 1960 facsimile from Iwanami Shoten was terrible: small and poorly printed. It was almost unreadable for me, but you might do better since you actually speak the language. Kaisetsu was by Doi Tadashi IIRC.

The version I'm working with, the Benseisha one, was first printed in 1973 (mine is the third printing). Kaidai by Kamei Takashi. It's big -- about A4 size -- and quite readable.

Apart from that, there is also apparently a "Paris-bon" version from Benseisha (ed. Ishizuka Harumichi 石塚晴通, 1976 -- and it must be either good or rare because it is crazy expensive -- and the エヴォラ本日葡辞書 from Seibundo, 1999, which I'm going to assume is objectively the best given the advances in facsimile-reproducing technology between the 1970s and 1999.

I don't know anything about facsimiles of the 日本大文典, unfortunately...

I advise strgnoly against taking a tour from either Hato or JTB.In researching their tours, I found that all are very expensive, and practicallly every tour will leave to yourself to find your own way back to your hotel, even if there was a guide at the beginning of the tour. (They call this a course, which you have to pay for).I took a JTB tour to Ryogukan, and found it necessary to travel to the other side of Tokyo to join the tour, even though my hotel was closer to the Sumo wrestling arena, then having to travel back to the arena because subway tickets were included in the tour price. Also, they do not pick up at major hotels. I have been to Japan five times, and found that the level and amount of English have improved drastically.Except for figuring out how much a trip on the subway costs, there are many English signs, and the train staff are all too willing to help. They all seem have had lessons in English numbers.References : Experience.