A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome write by Kathryn M. Lucchese. This book was released on 2024-10-02. A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through essays on its key players, detailed original maps, and a narrative drawn from contemporary Italian and Latin sources never before translated into English, A Japanese Mission to 17th Century Rome: Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream presents a nuanced history of the Keicho Mission (1613-1620), a little-known embassy sent to Europe by Masamune Date, the wealthy and ambitious Lord of Oshu (northeastern Japan) seeking to establish trade and cultural ties with Spain and the Roman Catholic Church. Kathryn M. Lucchese describes how the Mission crossed the Pacific, New Spain, and the Atlantic, toured Spain and Italy and paraded in triumph across Rome before making the long return to Sendai. Though its full success was doomed by unfriendly forces in Europe and unfolding policies in Japan, the Mission did open a brief period of trade with New Spain and earned papal support for a Diocese of Japan, leaving traces of its passing in the form of Japanese settlers in Spain and Mexico and the cosmopolitan soul of modern Sendai.
The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590
The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590 write by Michael Cooper. This book was released on 2021-10-01. The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the pioneering work of Francis Xavier in establishing Christianity in Japan, his successor Alessandro Valignano, decided to send a legation to Europe representing the three Christian daimyo of Kyushu, southern Japan. It consisted of two Christian samurai boys who were chosen as legates, together with two teenage companions. The group set sail from Nagasaki in February 1582 and were to be away for eight years. The purpose of the mission was twofold: it would give Europeans the chance of seeing Japanese people at first hand and appreciating their culture, thereby publicising the work of the Catholic Church in Japan and so (it was hoped) increase much-needed financial support; and secondly on their return to Japan the envoys would give eyewitness reports of the splendours of Renaissance Europe, thus moderating Japanese notions about the outside world and foreign barbarians. The boys travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy and were feted wherever they went. In Venice, the authorities even postponed the annual festival in honour of St Mark, the city’s patron, so that the Japanese might view the spectacle. More importantly, the boys met Philip II of Spain several times, as well as Pope Gregory XIII and his successor Sixtus V. This is the first book-length study in English of the mission and provides important new insights into the work of the Jesuits in Japan and the nature of the legation’s impact on late-sixteenth-century European perceptions of Japan.
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe write by Derek Massarella. This book was released on 2013-01-28. Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings. It was published in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. The present edition is the first complete version of this rich, complex and impressive work to appear in English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations of the mission, and an introduction discussing its context and the subsequent reception of the book.
The Jesuit Mission to New France
The Jesuit Mission to New France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jesuit Mission to New France write by Takao Abé. This book was released on 2011. The Jesuit Mission to New France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new interpretation of the Jesuit mission to New France is here proposed by using, for comparison and contrast, the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. In order to present revisionist perspectives of the Jesuit missions based on a broader international framework beyond North America, the existing historical paradigms of the Jesuit missionary activity to Amerindians based on the limited regional history of New France are re-examined.
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III write by Donald F. Lach. This book was released on 2022-07-01. Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.
