Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Japan

Week 6

	Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
	Portrait of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
	Protrait of Oda Nobunaga.Colophon by Kokei Sochin, dated 1583, Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk, 73.3 x 36.8 cm. Kobe City Museum.

	Prohibitions with the Seal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dated 1589.
	Ordinances with the Seal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dated 1590.
	Tenku fubu ("Rule the Empire by Force"). Seal of Oda Nobunaga, c. 1567.

The Battle of Lepanto and Map of the World, c. 1600-14.

Full View
Pair of six-panel folding screens.

Detail Views
The Battle of Lepanto and Map of the World

Scenes In and Around the Capital, Second quarter of seventeenth century

Full View
Pair of six-fold screens. Namban Bunkakan, Osaka.

Detail View

Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall) of the Hokoji.

Detail view
Scenes In and Around the Capital.

	Donjon of Matsumomto Castle. Constructed ca. 1597. Nagano Prefecture.

	Azuchi Castle, 1579-82. Reconstruction by Professor Naito Akira. Shiga Prefectural Azuchi Castle Archaeological.


Crusaders and Muslims. Unknown Japanese artist, c. 1590.

	Saint Francis Xavier. Portrait by unknown Japanese artist, after 1623.

	Portable Altar with depiction of the Trinity. Late 16th - early 17th c.

	The Shimabara Flag. This flag was used by Christians in the Shimabara Rebellion, 1637-1638. Inscription reads, "Praised be the Blessed Sacrament."

	Formal letter of greetings, dated April 1588, from Dom Duarte de Meneses, Portuguese Viceroy of India, to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.