Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome - Date Masamunes Cosmopolitan Dream

Through engaging scholarship and detailed narrative, Kathryn M. Lucchese presents a pivotal, little-known episode in history, Date Masamune's 1613 Mission to Rome. Illustrated with original maps as well as contemporary portraits, documents, and maps, this book exploits a key source never before available in English in its entirety.

List of contents

Part I: The Context
Chapter 1. The Unusual Force of Character
Chapter 2. A Phoenix Lands in Oshu
Chapter 3. Islands Rich in Silver, Rich in Gold
Chapter 4. Their Sound Has Gone Out
Part II: The Characters
Chapter 5. Padre Luis Sotelo, O.F.M., Enterprising Friar
Chapter 6. Date Masamune, Momoyama Man
Chapter 7. Sebastián Vizcaíno, Cosmographer, and Spy
Chapter 8. Hasekura Rokuemon, Lordly Ambassador
Chapter 9. Scipio Amatus, Mysterious Chronicler
Part III: The Quest
Chapter 10. The Dream Sets Forth
Chapter 11. Stonewalled in Spain
Chapter 12. Fair Auguries
Chapter 13. Hasekura's Triumph
Chapter 14. Pyrrhic Victories
Chapter 15. The Place of the Axe
Conclusion. Lighting the Darkness

About the author

By Kathryn M. Lucchese

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn M Lucchese, Kathryn M. Lucchese
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2024
• EAN: 9781666962055
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-205-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Christianity, History of Religion, Asian History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies