Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan's Gardens, Cities and Landscapes
Cristina Castel-Branco, Guida Carvalho
Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2019
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This 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.
- ISBN-13
- 9789811500176
- ISBN-10
- 9811500177
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-10-15
- Pages
- 241
- Dimensions
- 160x241x25
- Weight
- 576