A Meeting of Japan, China, and the West, late 18th - early 19th century, Shiba Kōkan, Japanese, 1747 - 1818, 40 × 19 1/2 in. ( × cm) (image)74 1/4 × 24 1/4 in. ( × cm) (without roller), Ink and color on silk, Japan, 18th-19th century, A European, a Japanese, and a Chinese man sit around a table. As the European has a book showing a skeleton, he is believed to be the German doctor Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), whose writings circulated in Japan in the mid-18th century. Kōkan is considered the father of Western-style painting in Japan, and this painting is attributed to him

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