Overview: Gathers the first descriptions of 22 16th century Japanese gardens (unpublished until 1984) and compares with their present state.Shares the Portuguese Rennaissance accounts on Japanese gardens, citieThis book focuses on Luis Frois, a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 differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time. This research also draws on other Portuguese descriptions
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