id: 136312 accession number: 1960.193.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.193.1 updated: 2023-03-23 18:22:21.292000 Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians", c. 1600. Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615). One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper; image: 146.7 x 337.2 cm (57 3/4 x 132 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1960.193.1 title: Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians" title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1600 creation date earliest: 1595 creation date latest: 1605 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615) technique: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 146.7 x 337.2 cm (57 3/4 x 132 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: Japanese Decorative Style opening date: 1961-08-30T04:00:00 Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961). title: East-West in Art opening date: 1966-06-22T04:00:00 East-West in Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN. title: Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections opening date: 1977-03-23T05:00:00 Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). title: Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615) opening date: 1988-10-04T04:00:00 Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988). title: Restoration at Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties opening date: 1997-05-22T00:00:00 Restoration at Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties (organizer) (May 22, 1997-April 28, 1998). title: Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2001-07-15T00:00:00 Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Japanese Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29-December 23, 2013). --- PROVENANCE Ogiware Yasunosuke date: footnotes: citations: Nagami Takutaro 永見 徳太郎 [1890–1950], Nagasaki, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1960 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1960– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Europeans were called "Southern Barbarians" because their ships arrived in Japan from the south. digital description: wall description: In this screen a formidable Portuguese ship with its fanciful rigging arrives in a Japanese port, much to the delight of the locals. The anonymous artist’s attention to detail in the depiction of the people, often grouped in vignettes, makes for a compelling scene, heightened by the use of billowing gold clouds leading the eye through the composition. Near the top of the left screen, rich women, sequestered in their homes, enjoy the dockside scene. In the scene on the right, townspeople and shop owners watch as the Portuguese walk down the street, obvious in their cartoonish, balloon-shaped pants. At the far edge of the right screen, Jesuit priests are visible in their long black robes. Japanese patrons were curious about the outside world, and scenes of foreigners such as this were particularly popular. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Yoshida, Teruji 吉田暎二. Ukiyoe taisei 浮世繪大成. Tokyo 東京: Toho Shoin 東方書院, Showa 昭和 5–6 [1930 –1931]. page number: Reproduced: pls. 108–110 url: Hōun 寳雲, no. 4 (1932): pp. 64–83. page number: url: Buhot, Jean. "Les Paravents Des Portugais: A Propos du Paravent du Musée Guimet." Revue Des Arts Asiatiques 12, no. 2/3 (June-September 1938): 113–124. page number: Reproduced: pls. 2–4 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43474404 Okamoto, Yoshitomo 岡本良知. Nanban byōbu kō 南蛮屛風考. Tōkyō: Shōshinsha, 1955. page number: Reproduced: title page url: Narazaki, Muneshige 楢崎 宗重. "Japan's Trade with Western Countries" Kokka no. 764 (November, 1955). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 361, pl. 6 url: Kondō, Ichitarō 近藤市太郎. Momoyama shōhekiga meisaku ten 桃山障壁画名作展. Tōkyō: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1957. page number: Reproduced: no. 14 url: Zusetsu sekai bunkashi taikei 図說世界文化史大系. Tokyo: Kadokawa shoten, 1959. page number: Reproduced: vol. 23, part 4 , figs. 60–61 url: Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review| 1960." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 10 (1960): 223–254. page number: Reproduced: no. 34, pp. 224–225; Mentioned: no. 34, pp. 223 and 251 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142422 Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962. page number: cat. no. 96 url: Von Ragué, Beatrix. "A Pair of Screens with the "Southern Barbarians"." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 2 (1965): 27–33. page number: url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152033 Narazaki, Muneshige 楢崎 宗重. "The Types of Namban Screens" Kokka no. 881 (August, 1965): pp. 33–38. page number: Reproduced: pls. 7–9 url: Bowie, Theodore Robert, J. Leroy Davidson, and Rudolf Wittkower. East-West in Art: Patterns of Cultural & Aesthetic Relationships. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966. page number: Reproduced: pl. 186 url: Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 351; Reproduced: pp. 168–169, pls. 198a and b url: Katsuki Takashi. "Namban Byobu." Oriental Art, vol. 13 (Winter, 1967). page number: Reproduced: p. 257, fig. 5 url: Charleston, R. J., and John Ayers. World Ceramics: An Illustrated History. 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Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. Cleveland, OH: The Museum, 1977. page number: cat. no. 11 url: Sakamoto, Mitsuru 坂本満. Fūzokuga: Nanban fūzoku 風俗画: 南蛮風俗. Tōkyō: Kōdnsha, 1977. page number: Reproduced: pp. 88–89 and 92, pls. 97, 98, 105 url: Sakamoto, Mitsuru. Nanban byōbu. Tōkyō: Shibundō, 1977. page number: Reproduced: pl. 32 url: Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Eastern Gate: An Invitation to the Arts of China and Japan. Cleveland, OH: Collins, 1979. page number: pp. 228–230 url: Vollmer, John, E. J. Keall, and E. Nagai-Berthrong. Silk Roads, China Ships. Toronto, ON: Royal Ontario Museum, 1983. page number: pp. 136, 181 url: "Fugetsu sansui 風月山水." Vol. 12 in Nihon no ishō 日本の意匠. Yoshioka, Yukio 吉岡幸雄, editor. Kyōto-shi: Kyōto Shoin, 1986. page number: Reproduced: pp. 74–75, color pl. 75 url: Tsutsui, Hiroichi 筒井紘一 and Tatsurō Akai 赤井達郎. Chanoyu kaiga shiryō shūsei 茶の湯絵画資料集成. Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1992. page number: p. 31, no. 14 url: Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: cat. no. 9, pp. 24–25 url: Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 78 url: Rivero Lake, Rodrigo. Namban: Art in Viceregal Mexico. [Madrid]: Estiloméxico Editores, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp.165–167 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 182–183 url: Welsh, Jennifer L. "Cultural Trends and Cross-Cultural Interest: The 'Southern Barbarian Screens,' and Early Modern Japan." Japan Studies Association Journal 10 (2012). page number: Reproduced: p. 164, ill. 2 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 243; Reproduced: pp. 232–233 url: Usanov-Geissler, Nora. Kyōto und seine Anderen: bildkünstlerische Imaginationen der Küste auf japanischen nanban byōbu. München: Iudicium, 2019. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 79, fig. 56 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.193.1/1960.193.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.193.1/1960.193.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.193.1/1960.193.1_full.tif