Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians"
c. 1600
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
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 Europeans were called "Southern Barbarians" because their ships arrived in Japan from the south.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 146.7 x 337.2 cm (57 3/4 x 132 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1960.193.1
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty, Japanese Decorative Style, East-West in Art, Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections, Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615), Restoration at Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Main Japanese Rotation (Gallery 237)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29-December 23, 2013).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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