Mirror with Nanban figures, 17th century, Unknown Japanese, 7 5/8 × 3 13/16 × 1/4 in. ( × × cm), Bronze, Japan, 17th century, Nanban figures and motifs appeared on a variety of decorative objects and personal accessories such as this bronze mirror that depicts two Portuguese figures; an older man carrying a long tobacco pipe and a young servant carrying a bowl for his ashes. The term 'Nanban,' literally 'southern barbarians,' was originally a Chinese epithet used for Southeast Asians that the Japanese borrowed to refer to Portuguese and Spanish visitors in the sixteenth century

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