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.

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23Screens 2Motifs 11Annotations 2Essays
Nanban byōbu attributed to Kanō Dōmi, right-hand screen: carrack and Portuguese traders at Nagasaki
Missionary procession Missionary procession Jesuits in dark cassocks advancing in a line, often before a castle or church. Detail of Missionary procession on Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians" Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians" Detail of Missionary procession on Arrival of the Southern Barbarians Arrival of the Southern Barbarians Detail of Missionary procession on Nanban byōbu Nanban byōbu See all 4 examples → Compare side by side →
Open Nanban byōbu → Attributed to Kanō Dōmi, c. 1593–1602

The corpus

Nanban Ship Suruga Port, right-hand folding screen Nanban Ship Suruga Port Nanban byōbu attributed to Kanō Takanobu, right-hand screen Nanban byōbu Nanban byōbu, right-hand folding screen Nanban byōbu Nanban byōbu, right-hand folding screen Nanban byōbu Nanban byōbu (teaser crop) Nanban byōbu Nanban byōbu Nanban byōbu