A motif is the unit, not the screen.
Parsed Cargoes catalogs Nanban folding screens made in Japan around 1580–1640, and traces the motifs that fold and reappear across the corpus: the black ship, the missionary procession, and the retainers who cross from one screen to the next.
23Screens 17Motifs 2Annotations 2Essays
Arrival of the Europeans Kanō school, first quarter 17th c.
The corpus