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Beschreibung

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 Tenshō embassy (1582-90) and the Keichō 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.

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 Tenshō embassy (1582-90) and the Keichō 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.

Über den Autor
Mayu Fujikawa is Associate Professor at Meiji University's Graduate School in Tokyo.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780271099255
ISBN-10: 0271099259
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Fujikawa, Mayu
Hersteller: Pennsylvania State University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 260 x 211 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Mayu Fujikawa
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2025
Gewicht: 1,336 kg
Artikel-ID: 134173924

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