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Tabernacle in the Namban Style
Japan, Spain (c. 1580-90s)
Urushi, wood, mother-of-pearl and silver. 34,4 x 57,8 x 32,2 cm.
Monasterio de la Encarnación, Madrid.
Patrimonio Nacional. Spain.
"The namban liturgical lacquers that have survived to the present day in churches, monasteries and convents [...] provide tangible evidence of the cross-cultural interaction that occurred between the East and West, during the so-called ‘Christian century’ in Japan."
School of Nagasaki, Momoyama Era Artist
Small Portable Altar (Reliquaire Namban)
Japan (c. 1590s)
Lacquered Wood, Mother of Pearl, 49.3 x 4.4 x 34 cm.
Musée Guimet.
Lacquer portable Shrine with Saint Fernando
Japan (c. 1580-1630)
Urushi maki-e. 49.5 x 39 x 8 cm.
Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, CE27272.
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I've got a *ton* of Namban Art in this tag, which is basically a genre of works from Japan depicting mostly Portuguese merchants from the 1500s and 1600s, including a lot of Afro-Portuguese people: medievalpoc.tumblr.com/tagged/Namban
Sorry, meant to post this image with the link to the PDF on the Namban laquers:
redalyc.org/pdf/361/361298…
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