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Portuguese Traders by Japanese Painters
Image by Unknown Artist

Portuguese Traders by Japanese Painters

A detail of a painted screen showing the Japanese view of Portuguese traders. The Portuguese controlled the trading port of Nagasaki from c. 1571 to 1639.
Japanese Kyudo Archer
Image by Unknown Artist

Japanese Kyudo Archer

A 19th century CE illustration of an archer practising the Japanese martial art of kyudo. (Library of Congress)
Fictionalised Scene of Japanese Woodblock Printing
Image by Utagawa Kunisada

Fictionalised Scene of Japanese Woodblock Printing

A mid-19th-century scene by Utagawa Kunisada fancifully showing fashionable Japanese women creating books using woodblock printing techniques.
Japanese Persimmon
Image by Juuyoh Tanaka

Japanese Persimmon

Japanese persimmon.
Japanese Katana & Scabbard
Image by Smithsonian Institution

Japanese Katana & Scabbard

Japanese steel katana and scabbard. Decorated with cord, iron, silver, gold, and shibuichi alloy. c. 1596–1615 CE. Yamato, Japan. (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
A Japanese Folding Screen
Image by Gryffindor

A Japanese Folding Screen

A Japanese folding screen or byobu, used to sperate room space in traditional homes. This example shows a scene from the Tale of Genji. H. 153.4 cm x W. 349.9 cm. 18th century CE. (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)
Obsidian used for Prehistoric Japanese Tools
Image by James Blake Wiener

Obsidian used for Prehistoric Japanese Tools

This piece of obsidian dates from the Paleolithic period or c. 18000 BCE, and it was uncovered in Engarau-cho on Japan's Hokkaido island. It helped prehistoric Japanese people in making stone tools. (Tokyo National Museum)
Japanese Oni Figure
Image by Sailko

Japanese Oni Figure

A figurine representing a Japanese oni or demon. Edo Period (17th-18th century CE). (Historisches Museum Bern, Switzerland)
Japanese Puppet & Handler
Image by Kenji Mizoguchi (Director)

Japanese Puppet & Handler

A scene from the 1952 film The Life of Oharu showing a female puppet and handler as used in Japanese puppet theatre.
Ancient Japanese Ceremonial Staff
Image by James Blake Wiener

Ancient Japanese Ceremonial Staff

This ceremonial object in the shape of a staff is made of Jasper. It is Japanese and it dates to the 4th century CE, during the Kofun period. (Tokyo National Museum)
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