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南蛮
Term · iconography
“Southern barbarians”: the Portuguese and Spanish traders and missionaries in Japan from the 1540s, and the screens that show them — tall Europeans in pantaloons and capes, a galleon in port, the Jesuit church in Kyoto.
南蛮
Term · iconography
“Southern barbarians”: the Portuguese and Spanish traders and missionaries in Japan from the 1540s, and the screens that show them — tall Europeans in pantaloons and capes, a galleon in port, the Jesuit church in Kyoto.