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