Nanban Japan -

📸 Image idea: Detail of a Nanban byobu screen — a Portuguese black ship arriving in a golden-clouded Japan.

🎨 Nanban art: folding screens ( byobu ) depict exotic red-haired foreigners with long noses, riding strange animals (horses! elephants!?) nanban japan

#NanbanTrade #JapaneseHistory #PortugalAndJapan #SamuraiEra #NanbanArt #CastellaCake #HistoryReels 📸 Image idea: Detail of a Nanban byobu

🛶 First contact: 1543, Portuguese ship drifts to Tanegashima. Within years, matchlock guns ( tanegashima ) revolutionize samurai warfare. but so does suspicion.

⛪️ Jesuit Francis Xavier arrives 1549 — Christianity spreads, but so does suspicion.