Poster 'Pair of Namban Screens with Maps of the World and Japan' Size:M Northern China (from Henan to

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Poster 'Pair of Namban Screens with Maps of the World and Japan' Size:M Northern China (from Henan toThis poster features a folding screens painted in bright colours on an indigo background form maps more than 2. 5 metres long. They are indicative of the global circulation of knowledge during the pre modern era and the fact that Japan had been included in the circuit following the Portuguese and Spanish expansion into Asia and the missionary expeditions of the Jesuits. One screen shows a planisphere, the other the Japanese archipelago. The maps

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