FLAIL!!!!!
Feb. 6th, 2010 10:37 amFirst load of laundry is in. Goop is on hair. But I need more Rustoleum and I'm just going to do the whole gameboard top from scratch. Pagano's didn't have small cans of Rustoleum. This stuff I bought is taking for freaking ever to dry, even with a high intensity worklight shining on it and a fan going.
Better image of the four Japanese emissaries found on the German version of Wikipedia:
So,
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Excellent scholarly article on the Jesuits in Japan. I can't even begin to get into their interpretations of Buddhism as described in letters home, but it does have a good chronology on the mission at the time:
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/361/36100206.pdf
Google Books had a nice 30 page chunk of Tanegashima: the arrival of Europe in Japan available online.
Still feel like I'm scratching the surface, but at least I have some information organized that I can present if anyone takes the class.
And check out this well dressed samurai doing the Grand Tour of the courts of Europe in 1615.
Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga, as painted by Claude Deruet.