Nanban art
Nanban art (Japanese南蛮 美术, Nanban bijutsu ) denotes an art movement in Japan, which existed during the epoch of Nanban trade 1550-1640 under the influence of the Portuguese missionaries. It includes Christian and Western- secular themes and images and objects that represent the Portuguese in Japan.
- 3.1 Examples
History
After 1543 the first Portuguese ship, the Japanese island of Tanegashima reached, followed in 1549, the Jesuit Francis Xavier, who went ashore in Kagoshima and began missionary work. 1569 Oda Nobunaga received the missionary Luís FROIS, the 1563 stayed in Japan until 1592. The Jesuits were particularly successful on Kyūshū with their missionary work, where they set up with the support of the local daimyo in different places seminars. There, not only the Bible was taught, but also Western knowledge conveyed, including the Western art of the time. From Giovanni Niccolo (1560-1626), who taught painting there, a remarkable portrait of Oda Nobunaga is handed down.
In addition to the missionary activity of the trade also flourished in Portugal with Japan. In general, a ship of the type Nao per year visited the country, which is further on his way home after a few months. To a lesser extent it also succeeded the Spaniards to do business with Japan.
With the persecution of Christians from the late 16th century, culminating in the Landesabschließung Japan in 1640, the western-inspired art disappeared from the public. A number of works have survived in secret but the time to re-admission of Christianity in 1873. You are now mostly in museums open to the public.
Christian Art
The Christian art produced in Japan comprises:
- Ritual objects made of metal, such as bells, mugs for the sacrament, wooden items, such as portable altars, bookends, inter alia, Typical of the latter is the version with brass and mother of pearl inlays.
- Painting with Christian content. A few pictures of Mary and the saints, partly in altars are obtained. You are partly in poor condition.
Examples
Mary
Christian temple
Japanese votive altar
Priest with children
Secular Art
The secular art with western content can be found as a painting in the form of setting screens - usually performed as a pair -
- Western scenery in two versions ( The pair per 1.20 m × 3 m.) Folding screen couple "Landscape with them vergügenden Europeans " (洋人 奏 楽 図 屏风) MOA Museum of Art
- Folding screen couple "Landscape with them vergügenden Europeans " (洋人 奏 楽 図 屏风) Eisei Bunko [note 1]
- Folding screen couple " Kings of the far west on horseback " (泰西 王 候 驹 马 図 屏风) Suntory Museum of Art
- Folding screen couple " Kings of the far west on horseback " (泰西 王 候 驹 马 図 屏风) Kobe City Museum
Examples
Folding screen - pair " yourself vergnügende Europeans " ( Eisei Bunko )
Folding screen pair with world map and Japan
Folding screen with a Portuguese ship in Japan (detail)
Inro with foreigners
Museums with collections of Namban Art
- Kobe City Museum
- Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga