Six panel screen attributed to Kano Naizen (1570-1616)
This so-called namban (literally, "southern barbarian") screen depicts some of the Portuguese who arrived in Japan in the Azuchi-Momoyama and very early Edo periods. There remain today only about 60 examples of this namban genre. Left-hand screen: Portuguese departing from a port in one of their colonies in Southeast Asia; right-hand screen: entering a Japanese port. A group of the visitors are going to Jesuit chapel (nambanji).