Nanban art

While Christian icons and other objects were produced, Nanban byōbu (南蛮屏風) or folding screens are particularly notable, with over 90 pairs surviving to this day.

Canons of western art of the period, such as linear perspective and alternative materials and techniques, appear to have had little lasting influence in Japan.

Given the persecution and prohibition of Christianity from the end of the sixteenth century and the Tokugawa policy of sakoku, which largely closed Japan to foreign contact from the 1630s, Nanban art declined.

[3][6] While Japonism did not develop in the west until after the reopening of Japan in the 1850s and the 1860s, there is evidence of earlier Japanese influence in the art of Colonial Mexico.

[7] bibliography (en) Alexandra Curvelo, Nanban Folding Screen Masterpieces, Chandeigne, 2015 (978-2-36732-121-9) (pt) Alexandra Curvelo, Obras-primas dos biombos Nanban, Japão-Portugal século XVII, Chandeigne, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-36732-120-2)

Nanban byōbu of c.1570-1616 attributed to Kanō Naizen , Kobe City Museum [ 1 ]
Western Kings on Horseback byōbu of c.1611-1614, Kobe City Museum. It is a work that fuses Western themes and techniques with Japanese techniques. [ 2 ]
A Japanese lacquerware produced and exported at the request of the Society of Jesus . Azuchi–Momoyama period, 16th century, Kyushu National Museum