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Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians"

c. 1600

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Japan, Momoyama period

(1573-1615)

Pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold on paper

Overall: 146.7 x 337.2 cm (57 3/4 x 132 3/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1960.193

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not on view

Description

These screens show European merchants arriving in Japan. Almost certainly the persons represented are Portuguese, since they are accompanied by Roman Catholic priests. Early in the seventeenth century the Portuguese were forced out of Japan, chiefly because of internal difficulties caused by their missionaries. Later between 1641 and 1853 the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to trade with Japan, but their presence was restricted to a port town in far western Japan, near present day Nagasaki.

Provenance

Ogiware Yasunosuke; Nagami Takutaro

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 280 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 280 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 378 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Michael R. Cunningham. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: p. 24-25

Exhibition history

The Cleveland Museum of Art; Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237); May 29, 2013 - December 23, 2013

Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 23-May 8, 1977).

The Porcelain Connection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982).

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988).

Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988).

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).

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Japan, Momoyama period

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