Hiroshi Sugimoto
Subtitle: gates of paradise
By: Hiroshi Sugimoto ; essays by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mark K. Erdmann, Ryuji Hiraoki, Yukie Kamiya, and Timothy Verdon
Contributors: Erdmann, Mark K., writer of added commentary; Hiraoka, Ryūji, 1974- writer of added commentary; Kamiya, Yukie, writer of added commentary; Verdon, Timothy, writer of added commentary; Japan Society (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780847860692
Subjects: Japanese Art; Japan Society (New York, N.Y.); Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Other titles: Gates of paradise
Description: In an electrifying moment in 1585, four Japanese youths appeared before Pope Gregory XIII, summoned to his court from the nascent Christian community in Japan to present themselves at the capital of their faith. Legendary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto follows in the boys footsteps, capturing the architectural wonders of Rome, Florence, and Venice as the Eastern visitors might have seen them on their grand tour. Sugimoto's images present each chapel and theatre as a marvel, imposing and dark. He contextualizes his photographs with Japanese works from the period and the decades that follow. These panels and objects attest to the impact of Western culture, specifically Jesuit Christianity, on Momoyama and Edo aesthetics as Japanese artists envisioned scenes of European life. Exhibition: Japan Society, New York, USA (20.10.2017-07.01.2018).
Notes: "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, October 20, 2017-January 7, 2018, organized by Japan Society, New York"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Motoatsu Sakurai; title: The Quattro Ragazzi of the Tensho Embassy; title: Quattro Ragazzi / Hiroshi Sugimoto; title: Plates; title: Much ado about Japan and Quattro Ragazzi / Ryûji Hiraoka; title: Imagining "Southern barbarians": the birth and reception of Nanban art in sixteenth-century Japan / Mark K. Erdmann; title: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise / Timothy Verdon; title: The sea connects, the sea divides: the Tensho Embassy through the eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto / Yukie Kamiya; title: Christianity and the Tea Ceremony / Hiroshi Sugimoto.