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Envisioning Diplomacy : Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe. 藤川真由著 近世ヨーロッパにおける日本の大使
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| 著者・編者 | Fujikawa, Mayu, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2025.09 |
| ページ数 | 256 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜748-649＞ |
解説
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Japan sent its first diplomatic delegations to visit the popes and dignitaries of Europe. European artists portrayed these historic ambassadors-the Tensho embassy (1582-90) and the Keicho embassy (1613-20)-in numerous oil paintings, frescoes, drawings, and prints. Envisioning Diplomacy analyzes these images-including newly discovered and lost works-within their cross-cultural and diplomatic contexts.
Drawing on extensive and geographically expansive archival research, art historian Mayu Fujikawa investigates how the embassies were received and either assimilated or differentiated at European courts. She demonstrates how delegates' gifts to their hosts, their Europeanized kimonos, and the Western clothes they wore while traveling functioned as tools of soft diplomacy. Fujikawa also shows how printed materials functioned much as news does today, promoting the embassies widely and conveying information about the guests and their striking physical appearance.
Envisioning Diplomacy offers a fascinating look at the political, social, and cultural meanings of visual materials created around the embassies and should be of great interest to scholars, students, and general readers interested in early modern European art and history, costume history, diplomatic history, and Japanese and global studies.