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Watanabe Shûseki was an [[Edo period]] painter known for his paintings of the [[Dejima|Dutch]] and [[Tojin yashiki|Chinese]] compounds at [[Nagasaki]]. After being commissioned to produce record paintings of those two sites in [[1699]], his scrolls were reportedly so informative that officials commissioned him to then produce a number of additional copies; eight such sets are known to survive today.
Watanabe Shûseki was an [[Edo period]] painter known for his paintings of the [[Dejima|Dutch]] and [[Tojin yashiki|Chinese]] compounds at [[Nagasaki]]. After being commissioned to produce record paintings of those two sites in [[1699]], his scrolls were reportedly so informative that officials commissioned him to then produce a number of additional copies; eight such sets are known to survive today.
[[File:Tojinyashiki.jpg|center|800px|thumb|Scenes in the Chinese settlement, Nagasaki, in a handscroll by Shûseki on display at the British Museum.]]
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