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Folding Screen of Arrival of the Nambanjin (Western People)

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  • Edo period, 17th century
  • color on paper with gold foil
  • pair of six folding screens

Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings

Important Cultural Property

On the left screen is the people watching the unloading of a European ship, and on the right screen is a general and his party headed for a Christian church. In this screen, where the subject unfolds from the left screen to the right screen, the interest of the Japanese towards the foreign cultures seen within the depiction of splendid European people, treasures, and animals from the west, is uniquely and lively depicted. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)

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Title/Name Folding Screen of Arrival of the Nambanjin (Western People)
Other Title/
Name
Artist/
Creator
Period/Era Azuchi-Momoyama period Edo period
Century 17c.
Quantity pair of six folding screens
Dimensions
Material/
Technique
color and gold-leaf on paper
Signature/
Inscriptions
Accessories/
Contents
Country/
Origin
Excavation
Site
Related
Place
Nagasaki Shizuoka
Provenance
Collection
No.
SZK002339
Category PaintingsJapanese / Asian Paintings
Cultural
Property
Designation
Important Cultural Property
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Folding Screen of Arrival of the Nambanjin (Western People)

Folding Screen of Arrival of the Nambanjin (Western People)

On the left screen is the people watching the unloading of a European ship, and on the right screen is a general and his party headed for a Christian church. In this screen, where the subject unfolds from the left screen to the right screen, the interest of the Japanese towards the foreign cultures seen within the depiction of splendid European people, treasures, and animals from the west, is uniquely and lively depicted. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)