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[[File:Nanbanscreen.jpg|right|thumb|400px|An early 17th century ''Nanban'' screen in the collection of the [[Peabody Essex Museum]] in Salem, Massachusetts]]
*''Japanese'': 南蛮屏風 ''(Nanban byoubu)''
''Nanban'' screens were a genre of folding screen (''[[byobu|byôbu]]'') paintings popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, depicting Europeans (''[[Nanban]]jin'', lit. "southern barbarians"), as well as their fashions, sailing ships, and other associated motifs.
Nanban Screens typically take one of three forms: some focus on the foreign sailing ship in harbor; others on foreigners amidst a town scene, having made their way ashore and into town; many, meanwhile, divide these two scenes between the left and right-hand screens of the set, respectively.
[[Kano Naizen|Kanô Naizen]] is perhaps the most well-known of the ''Nanban'' screen painters. One of the most famous of Naizen's screens depicts Europeans (or, perhaps, Japanese in ''Nanban'' fashion) at the [[Toyokuni Shrine]] Festival (''Hôkoku jinja matsuri''). Another of Naizen's screens, depicting foreigners walking the streets of a Japanese port city (presumably [[Nagasaki]]), includes a depiction of an [[elephant]] carrying a man in a litter on the elephant's back.<ref>Murase Miyeko (ed.), ''Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan,'' New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2003), cat. no. 123. The screen, with the elephant at the far left, can be seen at: [http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/culture/culture/institution/museum/meihin/046.html].</ref>
''Nanban'' paintings declined in popularity quickly after the 1590s, disappearing entirely by the 1650s. This was in part due to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] persecution of [[Christianity|Christians]] beginning in [[1587]], and also due to the [[kaikin|expulsion]] of the Portuguese in the 1630s.
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==References==
*Ronald Toby ロナルド・トビ, ''"Sakoku" toiu gaikô'' 「鎖国」という外交, Tokyo: Shogakukan (2008), 192, 199.
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*''Japanese'': 南蛮屏風 ''(Nanban byoubu)''
''Nanban'' screens were a genre of folding screen (''[[byobu|byôbu]]'') paintings popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, depicting Europeans (''[[Nanban]]jin'', lit. "southern barbarians"), as well as their fashions, sailing ships, and other associated motifs.
Nanban Screens typically take one of three forms: some focus on the foreign sailing ship in harbor; others on foreigners amidst a town scene, having made their way ashore and into town; many, meanwhile, divide these two scenes between the left and right-hand screens of the set, respectively.
[[Kano Naizen|Kanô Naizen]] is perhaps the most well-known of the ''Nanban'' screen painters. One of the most famous of Naizen's screens depicts Europeans (or, perhaps, Japanese in ''Nanban'' fashion) at the [[Toyokuni Shrine]] Festival (''Hôkoku jinja matsuri''). Another of Naizen's screens, depicting foreigners walking the streets of a Japanese port city (presumably [[Nagasaki]]), includes a depiction of an [[elephant]] carrying a man in a litter on the elephant's back.<ref>Murase Miyeko (ed.), ''Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan,'' New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2003), cat. no. 123. The screen, with the elephant at the far left, can be seen at: [http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/culture/culture/institution/museum/meihin/046.html].</ref>
''Nanban'' paintings declined in popularity quickly after the 1590s, disappearing entirely by the 1650s. This was in part due to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] persecution of [[Christianity|Christians]] beginning in [[1587]], and also due to the [[kaikin|expulsion]] of the Portuguese in the 1630s.
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==References==
*Ronald Toby ロナルド・トビ, ''"Sakoku" toiu gaikô'' 「鎖国」という外交, Tokyo: Shogakukan (2008), 192, 199.
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[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]