The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625

ISBN-13: 9780198832034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 336 str.

University of SOAS Timon (Professor of the History of Art

Opis

The story of two extraordinary gifts from King James I of England to the Shogun of Japan - and what this tells us about says about the seventeenth century England from which they came and the quizzical Asian rulers to whom they were given.

Recenzje

The Shogun's Silver Telescope opens up new avenues of research Bhavani Raman, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

O autorze

Timon Screech is Professor of the History of Art, SOAS, University of London. He is the author of some dozen books on the art and culture of Japan's Edo Period (1603-1868), in English and Japanese, including most recently Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of Edo, 1590-1868 (2019).