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Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome

Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-10-01
Mått158 x 237 x 18 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in Modern Japan
Antal sidor230
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666962055

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Part I: The ContextChapter 1. The Unusual Force of CharacterChapter 2. A Phoenix Lands in OshuChapter 3. Islands Rich in Silver, Rich in GoldChapter 4. Their Sound Has Gone OutPart II: The CharactersChapter 5. Padre Luis Sotelo, O.F.M., Enterprising FriarChapter 6. Date Masamune, Momoyama ManChapter 7. Sebastián Vizcaíno, Cosmographer, and SpyChapter 8. Hasekura Rokuemon, Lordly AmbassadorChapter 9. Scipio Amatus, Mysterious ChroniclerPart III: The QuestChapter 10. The Dream Sets ForthChapter 11. Stonewalled in SpainChapter 12. Fair AuguriesChapter 13. Hasekura’s TriumphChapter 14. Pyrrhic VictoriesChapter 15. The Place of the AxeConclusion. Lighting the Darkness

“A cartography expert and world traveler, Kathryn M. Lucchese presents an engaging and lively narrative to reveal varying characteristics of the main individuals pertaining to the Keicho embassy and its epic journey. A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome: Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream is a much needed and long-awaited, monograph-length introduction of this fascinating Japanese embassy for English readers.”