François Caron and his Vision of Japanese Art in the Early Seventeenth Century ; François Caron y su visión del arte japonés a comienzos del siglo XVII

During the first decades of the seventeenth century, when relations between the Europe and Japan were in crisis, François Caron lived in the archipelago. This worker of the Dutch East India Company remained in the Land of the Rising Sun from 1619 to 1641, reaching the position of opperhoofd (chief manager) of the Dutch trading post at Hirado. During his stay in the islands, Caron had the opportunity to enter Japanese culture and learned the language. His knowledge of the country was such that his superiors of the Dutch company commissioned him a report answering various questions relating to t... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Sanz Guillén, Alejandro M.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Verlag/Hrsg.: Ediciones Complutense
Schlagwörter: François Caron / Dutch East India Company / Japanese art / Books / Seventeenth century / Compañía Neerlandesa de las Indias Orientales / Arte japonés / Libros / Siglo XVII
Sprache: Spanish
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During the first decades of the seventeenth century, when relations between the Europe and Japan were in crisis, François Caron lived in the archipelago. This worker of the Dutch East India Company remained in the Land of the Rising Sun from 1619 to 1641, reaching the position of opperhoofd (chief manager) of the Dutch trading post at Hirado. During his stay in the islands, Caron had the opportunity to enter Japanese culture and learned the language. His knowledge of the country was such that his superiors of the Dutch company commissioned him a report answering various questions relating to the islands. This document was published for the first time in 1646 in Amsterdam under the title Beschrijvinghe van het machtigh coninckrijk Iapan, being republished and translated on numerous occasions in the following years. Caron's work had an enormous gives valuable information on Japanese society at the beginning of the Edo period, being one of the most important texts on Japan published in Europe during the Modern Age. In the following paper we will analyze the references about the Japanese artistic manifestations that Caron was able to do, studying the vision that the author reflected on them. ; Durante las primeras décadas del siglo XVII, en un momento en el que las relaciones entre Occidente y Japón entran en crisis, residió en el archipiélago François Caron. Este trabajador de la Compañía Neerlandesa de Indias Orientales permaneció en el País del Sol Naciente desde 1619 hasta 1641, llegando a ostentar el cargo de opperhoofd (encargado principal) del puesto comercial neerlandés de Hirado. Durante su estancia en el archipiélago, Caron tuvo la oportunidad de introducirse en la cultura nipona y aprender el idioma. Su conocimiento sobre el país fue tal que recibió el encargo de realizar un informe respondiendo a varias preguntas relativas a las islas, el cual se acabaría publicando por primera vez en 1646 en Ámsterdam bajo el título Beschrijvinghe van het machtigh coninckrijck Iapan, siendo reeditado y traducido en ...