Voices of the Past
First Japanese in Europe: Incredible Story of the Tensho Embassy (1582 - 1590) // DOCUMENTARY (2021x15)
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00:00 Introduction
3:14 Japan: The Idea
6:43 The Journey
10:04 Portugal
14:56 Spain
21:23 Italy and Rome
29:33 Home Again
Written by Thomas Lockley.
Check out his book on Yasuke: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Geoffrey-Girard/dp/1335044981/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=yasuke&qid=1615050333&sr=8-1
Edited and narrated by David Kelly.
Art by Matthew Cartwright.
— Music courtesy of:-
Epidemic Sound
Artlist.io
Bibliography:
Boscaro, Adriana. 1973. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the 1587 Edicts Against Christianity
Oriens Extremus, 20, 2, pp. 219-241.
Cooper, Michael. 2005. The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590. Folkestone: Global Oriental.
Frois, Luis. 2014. The First Description of Japan, 1585. A critical English-language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan. Abingdon: Routledge.
Lee, Adele. 2018. The English Renaissance and the Far East. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Markley, Robert. 2006. The Far East and The English Imagination, 1600-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Massarella, Derek (ed.), & Moran, J. F. (tr.). 2012. Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe. A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590.) Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing (on behalf of the Hakluyt Society.)
Moran, J. F. 1996. The Japanese and the Jesuits. Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan. Abingdon: Routledge.
Üçerler, M. Antoni J. 2003. Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer
Renaissance Studies, 17, 3, pp. 337-366
Image credits:
Kushima Castle
