Fukuoka Prize Publications and Works
The Shogunʹs Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600‐1625
2022.5.26
Written by Professor Timon SCREECH, the Academic Prize laureate of the Fukuoka Prize 2022.
- ■Author:Timon SCREECH
- ■Publisher:Oxford University Press
- ■Release Date:October, 2020
- ■Hardcover
- ■Language:English
- ■ISBN:9780198832034
- ・Tells the little-known story of Britain's first trade with Japan - Japan is a massive economic power today, but few people are aware that King James sent a present to the shogun already in 1611
- ・Reinterprets the early history of the East India Company, the world's biggest trading organisation until the 20th century
- ・Puts early seventeenth-century English art and culture into an international context (Quotation from Oxford University Press)