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'Nanban' Screens: Trade and Art in Japan
Southern Barbarians Come to Trade Foreign traders and Japanese merchants interact with one another. Goods are inspected and money changes...
Feb 18, 20224 min read


A Selection of Elephants in Edo Period Art
For me, elephants are an obsession. I have always loved them from my earliest memory. So what better way to discuss elephants than in the...
Jan 31, 20226 min read


Hokusai's People: The Life of a Labourer in Edo
Hokusai is well known for depicting the lives of ordinary people in his drawings and prints, but what do his artworks tell us about those...
Jan 27, 20229 min read
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