Parsed Cargoes
← Screens

Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians"

Unknown (Japanese) · Cleveland Museum of Art · c. 1600

Right screenLeft screen
Arrival of the Southern Barbarians, left-hand screen
Cleveland Museum of Art (CC0)

Object

Artist
Unknown (Japanese)
Date
c. 1600
Period
Momoyama–early Edo
Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
Location
Cleveland, OH
Materials
Ink, color, and gold on paper
Format
Pair of six-panel folding screens (byōbu)
Provenance
Cleveland Museum of Art 1960.193.1–.2; Sakamoto cat. 49

A pair of six-panel screens showing Portuguese merchants and missionaries arriving in Japan. Open-access (CC0) images from the Cleveland Museum of Art.