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Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan's Gardens, Cities and Landscapes (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan's Gardens, Cities and Landscapes (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit
and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens,
cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's
unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences
between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to
time. This research also draws on other Portuguese descriptions
from contemporary sources spanning the years 1543 - 1597, later
validated by Japanese history and iconography. Importantly,
explorer Jorge Alvares recorded his experiences of discovery,
prompting St. Francis Xavier to visit Japan in 1549, thus ushering
in the "Christian Century" in Japan. During this long period of
accord and reciprocal curiosity, the Portuguese wrote in excess of
1500 pages of letters to European Jesuits that detail their
impressions of the island nation-not to mention their observations
of powerful public figures such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi
Hideyoshi, and Sen no Rikyu. In addition to examining these
letters, the authors translated and researched early descriptions
of 23 gardens in Kyoto and Nara and 9 important cities-later
visited by the authors, sketched, photographed and compared with
the imagery painted on 16th-century Japanese screens. However, the
data gathered for this project was found mainly within five large
volumes of Frois' Historia do Japao (2500 pages) and his Treaty on
Contradictions-two incomparable anthropological works that were
unpublished until the mid-20th century for reasons detailed herein.
His volumes continue to be explored for their insightful
observations of places, cultural practices, and the formidable
historical figures with whom he interacted. Thus, this book
examines the world's first globalization efforts that resulted in
profitable commerce, the introduction of Portuguese firearms that
changed Japan's history, scientific advances, religious expansion,
and many artistic exchanges that have endured the centuries.
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