First Japanese in Europe: Incredible Story of the Tensho Embassy (1582 - 1590) // DOCUMENTARY

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00:00 Introduction
3:14 Japan: The Idea
6:43 The Journey
10:04 Portugal
14:56 Spain
21:23 Italy and Rome
29:33 Home Again

Written by Thomas Lockley.
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Edited and narrated by David Kelly.
Art by Matthew Cartwright.

— Music courtesy of:-
Epidemic Sound
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Oriens Extremus, 20, 2, pp. 219-241.

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Lee, Adele. 2018. The English Renaissance and the Far East. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Markley, Robert. 2006. The Far East and The English Imagination, 1600-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Massarella, Derek (ed.), & Moran, J. F. (tr.). 2012. Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe. A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590.) Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing (on behalf of the Hakluyt Society.)

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Üçerler, M. Antoni J. 2003. Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer
Renaissance Studies, 17, 3, pp. 337-366

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