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Engraving: panoramic view of the city of Edo "IEDO". City with several high buildings and a vast amount of low houses; a river flowing towards it; farm fields on the rolling hills. In the foreground, left, a two-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses. Right
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Title page of Gerard de Lairesse's "Groot Schilderboek", first volume, second edition. Haarlem, 1740.
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"Tabako-ire", a tobacco pouch, made of imported 17th century Dutch gold leather. Button, chain, bead and ornamental button made of silver and ivory. Mid-19th century.
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Catchword: "Namban - Southern Barbarians; Kômôjin - The red-haired". Painting/ blockprint, detail: close-up of the faces of a Portuguese and a Dutchman (*).
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Drawing, based on the map of Deshima "Plan of Decima Nagasaki 1st November 1868", showing the island shortly after its incorporation into a concession.
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Pear-shaped ewer with long spout of Arita porcelain, painted in underglaze blue; c. 1670-1690. Human figures in a landscape in Chinese transitional style, and floral patterns (*).
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Litho: "Walvischvangst / Wallfischfang": a whaling scene. Based on a Japanese picture.
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Woodblock print, stencilled colours: a procession of Chinese performing a religious ritual. According to the text, whenever a Chinese ship has reached Nagasaki harbour, the small altar of the goddess Mazu (or Tianhou, as on the lantern) is carried from th
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Copperplate illustration: "'t Eilandje Desima Verblyf Plaats der Hollanders in Japan", from Thomas Salmon "Hedendaagsche Historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Alle Volkeren" (Amsterdam, 1728). (*). This illustration does not figure in the English edition; c
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Painting: bird's eye view of the bay of Nagasaki. Part of the city, and, to the left, the island of Deshima. Boats in the harbour. One of a pair, the other one representing the Cock Blomhoff family (*). By Kawahara Keiga, around 1820.
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Title and one section of a painted handscroll: "Gaikoku hyôshiki zu", "Pictures of Flags of Foreign Countries". Dutch title reads: "Nieuwe Vermeerderde vlag Kaart van verscheide Landen van deze Waereld". By Ishizaki Yûshi, dated 1804.
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Painting: kingfisher, heron and an ibis-like bird, sitting on the waterside. By Shiba Kôkan, closely resembling one of his oil paintings (*).
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A detail from a Nanban screen: a Jezuit priest in a black gown covering his head with his long sleeve; a boy in rich attire, and two Portuguese with arms around each other's shoulders.
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The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary, with portraits of St. Xavier and St. Ignatius.
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Handscroll, detail: two peacocks; a slave working on the <b>two</B> herbal gardens; <b>two</B> identical entrances to the white-plastered house. Detail of the third section of "Deshima ezu", "Picture of Deshima". Copy (*).
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Woodblock print, stencilled colours: the cortege of the Korean embassy sent to Edo in 1811. Third in a series of four prints: an a closed sedan chair with four bearers; two Japanese (interpreters?); a military official on horseback with flag-bearers; two
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Woodblock multicolour print: "sutonbôto", "steamboat", full of Dutch flags, a paddle wheel, and chimney with steam. It represents the paddle steamer "Soembing" which was offered as a gifrt to the Japanese government in 1855, after which it was renamed "Ka
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Ink sketch: the lower half of the lookout platform, built on a tiled roof. Dog. From an album of sketches, compiled by the inn keeper Itô Mokunojô (*); facsimile copy of the album, published by Ogata Tomio (Tokyo, 1977).
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Woodblock print, stencilled colours: "HOLLANDER". A Dutch couple, depicted in a decorative frame; the man with cocked hat, raising a glass; the woman with earrings and necklace. On the table in front of them a flask, and ink-dropper/ashtray (?). Published
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Watercolour on silk: a distant view of Mt. Fuji across the Ôigawa River, seen from the Kanetani Plateau in Tôtômi Province. By Shiba Kôkan, dated 1812. In the upper right corner an autograph colophon. One of the set of views of Mt. Fuji painted by Kôkan d
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Handscroll, detail: two stags; two Japanese officers in their office; fence with "chevaux-de-frise"; warehouse with Dutchman on balcony; cock, hen and turkeys; Dutchman on pathway. Right half of the third section of "Nagasaki Oranda Deshima no zu", "Map o
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Woodblock print: a miscroscope with explanation, from "Kômô zatsuwa" (1787), "Red-Hair Miscellany", by Morishima Chûryô.
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Portrait: St. Franciscus Xavierus [1544-1599] offering his "burning" heart to Jesus; a vision of the crucifix surrounded by cherubs, the Jesuit anagram "IHS", and Xavier's words of gratitude: "SATIS EST D(OMI)NE SATIS EST", "It's enough, Lord, it's enough
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Litho: "Trein van het Nederlandsch gezantschap / Zug der Niederländischen Gesandtschaft". Part of the "hofreis" procession moving along a beach; based on a painting by Kawahara Keiga.
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