Japan: 'The Trading Post at Dejima'. Silk handscroll painting by an anonymous painter, c. 1840. Painted on a 6-metre silk and paper ‘makimono’—a Japanese scroll painting—this scene depicting Dutch traders in Dejima, near Nagasaki, indicates the manner in which the strange Europeans were viewed by Japanese during the Edo period. The Dutchmen all have reddish-brown hair, wear extravagant costumes and doff their hats to each other. Dejima, or Deshima (literally ‘Exit Island’), is a small artificial island built for foreign traders in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634 during the Edo period.

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