Sacred Spectacle, Imperial Stage: Welcoming Hasekura Tsunenaga in the Mediterranean
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This article reinterprets the Keichō Embassy (1613–1620), led by Hasekura Tsunenaga, through the lens of Mediterranean studies rather than conventional transpacific frameworks. It examines the embassy’s passage through Seville, Madrid, Genoa, and Rome, focusing on the diplomatic, religious, and performative cultures of the Western Mediterranean. Drawing on the concepts of ritual economy and composite contact zones, the study reveals how each city re-scripted the embassy’s meaning according to local visions of power, faith, and civic identity, distinguishing Mediterranean ceremonial adaptability from continental imperial logic. It analyzes the role of Franciscan Luis Sotelo as a Mediterranean intermediary whose ambitions shaped the embassy’s reception. Contrasting Seville’s spectacular incorporation, Genoa’s strategic restraint, and Rome’s liturgical absorption with Madrid’s bureaucratic containment, the article demonstrates how Mediterranean ceremonial economies simultaneously welcomed and regulated foreign difference. Through analysis of visual culture, liturgical art, and the enduring legacy of Coria del Río’s Japón community, the study presents the Mediterranean as both a stage for cultural diplomacy and a contact zone of transcultural memory.
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This article reinterprets the Keichō Embassy (1613–1620), led by Hasekura Tsunenaga, through the lens of Mediterranean studies rather than conventional transpacific frameworks. It examines the embassy’s passage through Seville, Madrid, Genoa, and Rome, focusing on the diplomatic, religious, and performative cultures of the Western Mediterranean. Drawing on the concepts of ritual economy and composite contact zones, the study reveals how each city re-scripted the embassy’s meaning according to local visions of power, faith, and civic identity, distinguishing Mediterranean ceremonial adaptability from continental imperial logic. It analyzes the role of Franciscan Luis Sotelo as a Mediterranean intermediary whose ambitions shaped the embassy’s reception. Contrasting Seville’s spectacular incorporation, Genoa’s strategic restraint, and Rome’s liturgical absorption with Madrid’s bureaucratic containment, the article demonstrates how Mediterranean ceremonial economies simultaneously welcomed and regulated foreign difference. Through analysis of visual culture, liturgical art, and the enduring legacy of Coria del Río’s Japón community, the study presents the Mediterranean as both a stage for cultural diplomacy and a contact zone of transcultural memory.