Chikubushima
Subtitle: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780295983271
Subjects: Oriental art; Religious buildings; c 1500 to c 1600; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Japan; Asian; Art and religion; Art, Japanese; Chikubu Island; Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 118; Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 1185-1600
First sentence: So observed the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Joao Rodrigues (1561-1633) in his book The History of the Church of Japan, which he wrote after living in Japan for more than thirty years, from 1577 to 1610.