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Painted by the Kanō School, “Southern Barbarian” offer visual documentation of the foreign imports, exotic animals, and diverse peoples that passed through southern Japanese ports, such as Nagasaki, functioning as encyclopedic records of a seventeenth-century world that was as cosmopolitan, but, ultimately, ephemeral.
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A Portuguese carrack (Port. nau) dropping anchor at Nagasaki or another port in southern Japan, the defining compositional element across the corpus of "Arrivals" screens. Their hulls were painted black with pitch for waterproofing, hence the name "black ship" (Jap. kurofune).
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