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Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians"

c. 1600

Part of a set. See all set records

Japan, Momoyama period

(1573-1615)

One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper

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

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1960.193.2

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Europeans were called "Southern Barbarians" because their ships arrived in Japan from the south.

Provenance

Ogiware Yasunosuke

Nagami Takutaro 永見徳太郎 [1890–1950], Nagasaki, Japan

?–1960

(Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1960–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Yoshida, Teruji 吉田暎二. Ukiyoe taisei 浮世繪大成. Tokyo 東京: Toho Shoin 東方書院, Showa 昭和 5–6 [1930 –1931]. Reproduced: pls. 108–110

Hōun 寳雲, no. 4 (1932): pp. 64–83.

Buhot, Jean. "Les Paravents Des Portugais: A Propos du Paravent du Musée Guimet." Revue Des Arts Asiatiques 12, no. 2/3 (June-September 1938): 113–124. Reproduced: pls. 2–4 www.jstor.org

Okamoto, Yoshitomo 岡本良知. Nanban byōbu kō 南蛮屛風考. Tōkyō: Shōshinsha, 1955. Reproduced: title page

Narazaki, Muneshige 楢崎宗重. "Japan's Trade with Western Countries" Kokka no. 764 (November, 1955). Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 361, pl. 6

Kondō, Ichitarō 近藤市太郎. Momoyama shōhekiga meisaku ten 桃山障壁画名作展. Tōkyō: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1957. Reproduced: no. 14

Zusetsu sekai bunkashi taikei 図說世界文化史大系. Tokyo: Kadokawa shoten, 1959. Reproduced: vol. 23, part 4 , figs. 60–61

Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review| 1960." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 10 (1960): 223–254. Reproduced: no. 34, pp. 224–225; Mentioned: no. 34, pp. 223 and 251 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962. cat. no. 96

Von Ragué, Beatrix. "A Pair of Screens with the "Southern Barbarians"." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 2 (1965): 27–33. www.jstor.org

Narazaki, Muneshige 楢崎宗重. "The Types of Namban Screens" Kokka no. 881 (August, 1965): pp. 33–38. Reproduced: pls. 7–9

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

Bowie, Theodore Robert, J. Leroy Davidson, and Rudolf Wittkower. East-West in Art: Patterns of Cultural & Aesthetic Relationships. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966. Reproduced: pl. 186

Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. Mentioned: p. 351; Reproduced: pp. 168–169, pls. 198a and b

Katsuki Takashi. "Namban Byobu." Oriental Art, vol. 13 (Winter, 1967). Reproduced: p. 257, fig. 5

Charleston, R. J., and John Ayers. World Ceramics: An Illustrated History. London: Hamlyn, 1968. Reproduced: p. 67, pl. 187

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

Shimada, Shūjirō 島田修二郎. Zaigai hihō: Ōbei shūzō nihon kaiga shūsei 在外秘宝 : 欧米收蔵日本絵画集成. Tokyo: Gakushu kenkyusha, Showa 44 [1969]. Reproduced: vol. 1, pt. 1, pls. 42 and 43

Grilli, Elise. The Art of the Japanese Screen. New York: Weatherhill, 1970. Reproduced: pp. 234–235, pl. 130

Okamoto, Yoshitomo 岡本良知, and Takamizawa Tadao 高見沢忠雄. Nanban byōbu 南蛮屛風. Tōkyō: Kajima Shuppankai, 1970. Reproduced: vol. 1, p. 179, pl. 48

Sakamoto, Mitsuru 坂本満, Tadashi Sugase 菅瀬正, and Fujiō Naruse 成瀬不二雄. Nanban bijutsu to Yōfūga 南蛮美術と洋風画. Tōkyō: Shōgakkan, 1970. Reproduced: pls. 52–53

Varley, H. Paul. Japanese Culture; a Short History. New York: Praeger, 1973. Reproduced: fig. 40 (left screen only)

"Japanese Art in the West." The Sun, no. 21 (Winter, 1977): pp. 82-83. Reproduced: fig. 62

Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. Cleveland, OH: The Museum, 1977. cat. no. 11

Sakamoto, Mitsuru 坂本満. Fūzokuga: Nanban fūzoku 風俗画: 南蛮風俗. Tōkyō: Kōdnsha, 1977. Reproduced: pp. 88–89 and 92, pls. 97, 98, 105

Sakamoto, Mitsuru. Nanban byōbu. Tōkyō: Shibundō, 1977. Reproduced: pl. 32

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

Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Eastern Gate: An Invitation to the Arts of China and Japan. Cleveland, OH: Collins, 1979. pp. 228–230

Vollmer, John, E. J. Keall, and E. Nagai-Berthrong. Silk Roads, China Ships. Toronto, ON: Royal Ontario Museum, 1983. pp. 136, 181

"Fugetsu sansui 風月山水." Vol. 12 in Nihon no ishō 日本の意匠. Yoshioka, Yukio 吉岡幸雄, editor. Kyōto-shi: Kyōto Shoin, 1986. Reproduced: pp. 74–75, color pl. 75

Tsutsui, Hiroichi 筒井紘一 and Tatsurō Akai 赤井達郎. Chanoyu kaiga shiryō shūsei 茶の湯絵画資料集成. Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1992. p. 31, no. 14

Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced and Mentioned: cat. no. 9, pp. 24–25

Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 78

Rivero Lake, Rodrigo. Namban: Art in Viceregal Mexico. [Madrid]: Estiloméxico Editores, 2005. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp.165–167

Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 182–183

Welsh, Jennifer L. "Cultural Trends and Cross-Cultural Interest: The 'Southern Barbarian Screens,' and Early Modern Japan." Japan Studies Association Journal 10 (2012). Reproduced: p. 164, ill. 2

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 243; Reproduced: pp. 232–233

Usanov-Geissler, Nora. Kyōto und seine Anderen: bildkünstlerische Imaginationen der Küste auf japanischen nanban byōbu. München: Iudicium, 2019. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 79, fig. 55

Exhibition history

Main Japanese Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29-December 23, 2013).

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

Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 6-December 17, 1961).

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

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

Restoration at Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties (organizer) (May 22, 1997-April 28, 1998).

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