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Manuscript page: the view of the universe by the "materialist" scholar Yamagata Bantô: every fixed star being a sun encircled by one or more (inhabited) planets. Early 19th century.
Litho: "Maat en gewigt / Mass und Gewicht": various Japanese instruments for weighing and measuring.
Handscroll, detail: warehouse with Dutchman on balcony; cock, hen and turkeys; Dutchman on pathway; slave tending geese; slave in herb garden; entrance of white-plastered house; two peacocks. Left half of the third section of "Nagasaki Oranda Deshima no z
Painting, detail (right): "Oranda-sen Tsuru-no-minato nyûkô no zu", "A Dutch Ship Entering the Harbour of the City of the Crane (= Nagasaki)": the arrival of the Dutch warship H.Ms. "Palembang" in 1844. Its captain, H.H.F. Coops, brought a message from ki
Woodblock print, stencilled colours: "Oranda-jin no zu" "A Dutchman". A Dutchman with walking stick and dog on a leash, and a Javanese slave boy holding up an umbrella. No publisher indicated. Nagasaki print.
Copperplate etching, tinted: "Oyaji-chaya" "Papa's Teashop" at Hir¿E near Edo. The white clouds are not part of the etching, but added by means of white washes. By Shiba Kôkan, dated 1784.
Woodblock print, stencilled colours: "Oroshiya-jin no zu", "A Russian". According to the text, this print represents an officer in the retinue of the envoy Admiral Rezanov, who arrived in Nagasaki in 1804. Other inscriptions explain the medal he is wearin
The left-hand section of a series of three paintings forming together a panoramic view of the Bay of Nagasaki seen from the north. A companion to the panoramic view from the south (*). By Kawahara Keiga.
Handscroll, detail: herb garden with servant; two peacocks; entrance to a white-plastered building; three Dutchmen with parrot on stand. Detail of the third quarter of "Deshima emaki", "Deshima scroll". Anonymous, early 18th century.
Painting, detail: European ladies and gentlemen on a picknick in a hilly landscape. The left one-fourth of a horizontal "scène galante" in late 17th-early 18th century style, copied from one or more European pictures. In the background a table in the open
Painting, detail: the right upper corner of Deshima and the flagpole with Dutch flag. Detail of a map of Deshima by Kawahara Keiga, c. 1830.
Two pages from the anatomical work "Kaitai Shinsho", by Sugita Gempaku and others (Edo, 1774), based upon Gerard Dieten's "Ontleedkundige Tafelen" ("Dissecting Tables", Amsterdam, 1731). A skeleton (left) and different bones of the hand and spine, designe
Woodblock multicolour print, triptych: a mixed group of foreigners on the waterfront of Yokohama: westerners (both men and women, the latter richly dressed); on the left two Chinese and two westerners seated at a dinner-table. From the series "Goka kuni j
Title page of "Kinmô zui", a popular pictorial encyclopedia (1673-1688, 20 volumes). The dragon pattern has been used by Scheuchzer as a border decoration on Kaempfer's "History of Japan".
Woodblock multicolour print: a European man holding a lance and confronting a spotted leopard in a mountainous landscape. Lengthy text, stating that exotic animals nowadays are being offered by foreigners as a result of the dynasty's virtue; and that this
Melon-shaped glass pot with cover, blown-cast in a mould, decorated with a flower scroll pattern. Made in Nagasaki, second half 18th century. The wooden stand with loop-handle suggests that it was used for outdoor tea drinking. On the right its wooden con
Drawing: an armillary sphere. One of a set of very accurate and detailed technical drawings of astronomical instruments with written explanations. By Motoki Ryôei, dated 1792.
Black-and-orange "futamono", glazed pottery serving dish with cover, shaped like a fish. Acquired by von Siebold in Japan.
A "watchtower clock", with a double foliot mechanism serving to adjust the clock to the varying length of the hours in winter and summer. Made in Japan, late 18th-early 19th century.
Watercolour: two horses on a snow-covered river bank, by Shiba Kôkan. Dated 1781, signed "Shimon Kôkan Shiba Shun sha". Based on two copperplate prints from Ridinger's album of pictures of horses from various countries, representing, respectively, a "Napo

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