Parsed Cargoes

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, right-hand folding screen, Kanō school
Arrival of the Europeans Kanō school, first quarter 17th c.

The corpus