Parsed Cargoes

Motifs

Recurring figures and objects that travel across the corpus. Each is the unit of study, a fold that reappears from screen to screen.

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  1. Detail of Missionary procession

    Missionary procession

    Jesuits in dark cassocks advancing in a line, often before a castle or church.

  2. Detail of The Black Ship (kurofune)

    The Black Ship (kurofune)

    The Portuguese nao dropping anchor at Nagasaki, a recurring compositional entry point across the corpus.

More motifs appear here as screens are annotated.