The Rediscovery of Japan: The Critical Reception of Japanese Architecture in Portugal after the Opening of Japan to the West

The opening of Japanese ports to the West in 1854 enabled the rediscovery by the rest of the world of Japan as a country, which, until then and throughout the more than two centuries of the Sakoku or closed country period, had maintained an isolationist policy in relation to the outside world. This...

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Main Author: João Miguel Couto Duarte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athens Institute for Education and Research 2023-01-01
Series:Athens Journal of Architecture
Online Access:https://www.athensjournals.gr/architecture/2023-9-1-3-Duarte.pdf