Namban: Art in Viceregal Mexico

by Rodrigo Rivero Lake

"Namban" is one of the first known Eastern terms for Westernization, and it describes a century of Japanese trade with Europe in the 1500s and 1600s, trade that influenced Japanese society and art a great deal until the nation, in response, sealed its borders. Japanese art showing Namban influence is well known; here the antiquarian and historian Rodrigo Rivero Lake uses the term to identify Japanese influence in not just Western art of the same era,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8475066933
• ISBN13: 9788475066936
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Turner
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 5.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.7" x 12.6"