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Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians"

Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians"

c. 1600
Location: not on view

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Europeans were called "Southern Barbarians" because their ships arrived in Japan from the south.
  • 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
  • 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
    Steele, Marcia, "A Royal Plaque", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 39 no. 07, September 1999 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 archive.org
    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
  • Main Japanese Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29-December 23, 2013).
    Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).
    Restoration at Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties (organizer) (May 22, 1997-April 28, 1998).
    Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988).
    Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977).
    Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961).
    Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
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