Mark K Erdmann; Ry ji Hiraoka; Yukie Kamiya; Timothy Verdon - Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise

New York, Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc. : in association with Japan Society, Inc. 2017. Hardcover. Hardcover, black cloth, color printed dust jacket, 216 pp, profusely illustrated with color plates. In an electrifying moment in 1585, four Japanese youths appeared before Pope Gregory XIII, summoned to his court from the nascent Christian community in Japan to present themselves at the capital of their faith. Legendary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto follows in the boys footsteps, capturing the architectural wonders of Rome, Florence, and Venice as the Eastern visitors might have seen them on their grand tour. Sugimoto's images present each chapel and theatre as a marvel, imposing and dark. He contextualizes his photographs with Japanese works from the period and the decades that follow. These panels and objects attest to the impact of Western culture, specifically Jesuit Christianity, on Momoyama and Edo aesthetics as Japanese artists envisioned scenes of European life. Contents are as follows: Foreword / Motoatsu Sakurai -- The Quattro Ragazzi of the Tensho Embassy -- Quattro Ragazzi / Hiroshi Sugimoto -- Plates -- Much ado about Japan and Quattro Ragazzi / Ryûji Hiraoka -- Imagining "Southern barbarians": the birth and reception of Nanban art in sixteenth-century Japan / Mark K. Erdmann -- Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise / Timothy Verdon -- The sea connects, the sea divides: the Tensho Embassy through the eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto / Yukie Kamiya -- Christianity and the Tea Ceremony / Hiroshi Sugimoto. VG+ .

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