Attributed to Nagakawa Yoryu (active late 18th century)
Attributed to Nagakawa Yoryu (active late 18th century)

Pictures of foreigners (Bankoku jimbutsu zu), 1791

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Attributed to Nagakawa Yoryu (active late 18th century)
Pictures of foreigners (Bankoku jimbutsu zu), 1791
Handscroll; ink and color on paper; 28 sheets
12½ x 523in. (31.9 x 1,328.5cm)
Table of contents titled Shijusan kakoku jimbutsu e (Paintings of people from 43 countries); colophon dated Kansei 3 (1791), with the name of the Nagasaki painter Nagakawa Yoryu; the name of the original mounter, Hisahiko of Izumo, appears on the reverse of the colophon; box lid titled Bankoku jimbutsu zu with the name Besso Eisho; reverse of box lid inscribed Takibisha gohozen (Treasures of Takibi Shrine), a Shinto shrine in Izumo

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