LEADER 04580nam 22006015 450 001 9910366615103321 005 20200702032757.0 010 $a981-15-0018-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-15-0018-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000009757406 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5909953 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-15-0018-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009757406 100 $a20190928d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLuis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan's Gardens, Cities and Landscapes /$fby Cristina Castel-Branco, Guida Carvalho 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XLIII, 241 p. 84 illus.) 311 $a981-15-0017-7 327 $aIntroduction -- Portuguese people in Japan from 1543 to 1600 -- Japanese garden art and its evolution -- Gardens and landscapes described -- Comparative analysis with Japanese sources and Portuguese information -- Concluding thoughts -- Bibliography -- Annexes. 330 $aThis 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? História do Japão (2500 pages) and his Treaty on Contradictions?two incomparable anthropological works that were unpublished until the mid-20th century for reasons detailed herein.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. 606 $aArchitecture 606 $aLandscape architecture 606 $aJapan?History 606 $aHistorical geography 606 $aArts 606 $aArchitectural History and Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/K12008 606 $aLandscape Architecture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/K16003 606 $aHistory of Japan$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/715020 606 $aHistorical Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J22010 606 $aArts$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/416000 615 0$aArchitecture. 615 0$aLandscape architecture. 615 0$aJapan?History. 615 0$aHistorical geography. 615 0$aArts. 615 14$aArchitectural History and Theory. 615 24$aLandscape Architecture. 615 24$aHistory of Japan. 615 24$aHistorical Geography. 615 24$aArts. 676 $a720 700 $aCastel-Branco$b Cristina$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0861256 702 $aCarvalho$b Guida$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910366615103321 996 $aLuis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan's Gardens, Cities and Landscapes$91922157 997 $aUNINA