Il Grande Viaggio La missione giapponese del 1613 in Europa, Feb 2019
The prayer space of missionaries in Japan consisted in a first phase of the use of rooms inside p... more The prayer space of missionaries in Japan consisted in a first phase of the use of rooms inside private houses or abandoned temples adapted for the purpose; a sec- ond phase saw the construction of buildings based on European standards. In a last phase, religious premises returned to forms more in keeping with their Japan- ese context, in which rectangular building plans are the most widespread. Because of the temporary nature of these structures and the following religious repression, few remains of these buildings survive; moreover the graphic representations on the folding screens are often unreliable because they do not correspond to contem- porary written descriptions.
Il Grande Viaggio La missione giapponese del 1613 in Europa, Feb 2019
The prayer space of missionaries in Japan consisted in a first phase of the use of rooms inside p... more The prayer space of missionaries in Japan consisted in a first phase of the use of rooms inside private houses or abandoned temples adapted for the purpose; a sec- ond phase saw the construction of buildings based on European standards. In a last phase, religious premises returned to forms more in keeping with their Japan- ese context, in which rectangular building plans are the most widespread. Because of the temporary nature of these structures and the following religious repression, few remains of these buildings survive; moreover the graphic representations on the folding screens are often unreliable because they do not correspond to contem- porary written descriptions.
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