A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome
eBook - PDF

A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome

Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream

  1. 231 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome

Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream

About this book

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.

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Information

Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781978783386
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. “Japanese Mission to Rome” Timeline
  11. Part I: The Context
  12. Part II: The Characters
  13. Part III: The Quest
  14. Conclusion
  15. Glossary
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author