南蛮人蒔絵印籠, Inrō with Portuguese Figures, late 18th–early 19th century

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南蛮人蒔絵印籠, Inrō with Portuguese Figures, Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th–early 19th century, Japan, Four cases; lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e and cut-out gold foil application on black ground, H. 3 3/4 in. ( cm); W. 2 1/8 in. ( cm); D. 1 1/8 in. ( cm), Inrō, The mutual fascination with which the Japanese and Europeans regarded each other after their initial contacts in the late sixteenth century was expressed in part by Japanese art objects that incorporated images of Westerners as part of the ornamentation

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