A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome: Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream

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Kathryn M. Lucchese

A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome

Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream

Kathryn M. Lucchese

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English

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 October 2024

History; Asian history; History of religion; Christianity

Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

Through essays on its key players, detailed original maps, and a narrative drawn from contemporary Italian and Latin sources never before translated into English, A Japanese Mission to 17th Century Rome: Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream presents a nuanced history of the Keicho Mission (1616-1620), a little-known embassy sent to Europe by Masamune Date, the wealthy and ambitious Lord of Oshu (northeastern Japan) seeking to establish trade and cultural ties with Spain and the Roman Catholic Church. Kathryn M. Lucchese describes how the Mission crossed the Pacific, New Spain, and the Atlantic, toured Spain and Italy and paraded in triumph across Rome before making the long return to Sendai. Though its full success was doomed by unfriendly forces in Europe and unfolding policies in Japan, the Mission did open a brief period of trade with New Spain and earned papal support for a Diocese of Japan, leaving traces of its passing in the form of Japanese settlers in Spain and Mexico and the cosmopolitan soul of modern Sendai.

By: Kathryn M. Lucchese
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781666962055
ISBN 10: 1666962058
Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 15 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathryn M. Lucchese is a retired lecturer in Human Geography at Texas A&M University.

Reviews for A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome: Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream

"""A cartography expert and world traveler, Kathyrn Lucchese presents an engaging and lively narrative to reveal varying characteristics of the main individuals pertaining to the Keicho embassy and its epic journey. A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome: Date Masamune's Cosmopolitan Dream is a much needed and long-awaited, monograph-length introduction of this fascinating Japanese embassy for English readers."" --Mayu Fujikawa, Meiji University"