Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan's Gardens, Cities and Landscapes
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 differe
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Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan’s Gardens, Cities and Landscapes
Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan’s Gardens, Cities and Landscapes
Cristina Castel-Branco • Guida Carvalho
Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan’s Gardens, Cities and Landscapes
Cristina Castel-Branco Landscape Architecture Professor; Department of Natural Resources and Landscape, School of Agronomy University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal
Guida Carvalho ACB Landscape Architecture Studio Landscape Architect, MLA University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal
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Father Luís Frois and Sen no Rikyū met in Kyoto around 1580. Although their cultures and religions were almost opposite, they chose to listen to and learn from one another. The former expressed his feelings and impressions in literature, while the latter made his mark in garden art and the Japanese “way of tea”. Their followers, Father Graham McDonnell at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, and Soshu Sen, 14th President of Tea Ceremony, both in Kyoto, sought to keep their ancestors’ legacy of openness alive in the twentieth and twentieth-first century. To the four of them, we dedicate this book.
Foreword
Seen from Europe, the islands of Japan lie at the eastern limit of the globe; in the United States, and even in California’s West Coast, we still refer to that part of Asia as the Far East—although it may, in fact, be closer to us than the European continent. Even the Chinese people, who historically have referred to their land as the Mi
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