Word: orientale
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When San Furanshisuko Saberyusu, as the Japanese called the Spanish Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, landed at Kagoshima in 1549, he was not quite the first Westerner to enter Japan. But the Portuguese merchants who had arrived before him were viewed with well-bred distaste by the Japanese. What could one...
Europe had its fashions in things Oriental: chinoiserie in the 18th century, Japanese screens and lacquer at the end of the 19th. But the Namban-ga, or "paintings of the southern barbarians" (the route from Europe lay round India, to the south), are a rare example of such a vogue...
Most awkward for the old China hand are those situations which defy explanation, those statements that simply do not make sense. Tuchman encountered several. Officials denied facts of history, made senseless decisions, and gave seemingly absurd rationales. Tuchman mused, "One never knows...whether it is ignorance, or befuddled Marxist orthodoxy...
Oriental acrobats have been the stuff of Western fantasy since Marco Polo included them, along with gems, spices and silks, in his tales about the wonders of the East. Now Westerners are getting a good look at what Marco was talking about in the first North American tour of the...
It all adds up to what Ralph Turner, director of London's pacesetting Electrum Gallery, describes as "a renaissance. It's like a fresh new stream that is rushing to pour its heart out." An apt word, renaissance, for the New Jewelers are indeed going back to jewelry...