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Japanese Food
Japanese Food.
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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.
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Map of Japanese Invasions of Korea, 1592-98 CE
A map showing the two Japanese invasions of Korea between 1592 and 1598 CE, otherwise known as the ‘Imjin Wars.’
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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)
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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.
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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)
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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)
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Japanese Tengu Figure
A figurine representing a Japanese tengu, a form of forest demon, Edo Period (17th-18th century).
Private collection.
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Japanese Oni Figure
A figurine representing a Japanese oni or demon. Edo Period (17th-18th century CE). (Historisches Museum Bern, Switzerland)
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Japanese Kyudo Archer
A 19th century CE illustration of an archer practising the Japanese martial art of kyudo. (Library of Congress)
