page_title: Japonisme
section_title: Seclusion (1639–1858)
hierarchical_section_title: Japonisme / History / Seclusion (1639–1858)
caption_attribution_description: Deksel van porselein, beschilderd in blauw, rood, groen, geel en zwart met bamboe en prunus en twee vogels.. Kakiemon-decor. Met bijbehorende pot (A); vaatwerk; deksel
context_page_description: Japonisme is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design in western Europe in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of trade of Japan in 1858.
  Japonisme was first described by French art critic and collector Philippe Burty in 1872.
context_section_description: During the Edo period (1639–1858), Japan was in a period of seclusion and only one international port remained active. Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered that an island, Dejima, be built off the shores of Nagasaki from which Japan could receive imports. The Dutch were the only country able to engage in trade with the Japanese, however, this small amount of contact still allowed for Japanese art to influence the West. Every year the Dutch arrived in Japan with fleets of ships filled with Western goods for trade. In the cargoes arrived many Dutch treatises on painting and a number of Dutch prints. Shiba Kōkan (1747–1818) was one of the notable Japanese artists that studied the Dutch imports. Kōkan created one of the first etchings in Japan which was a technique he had learned from one of the imported treatises. Kōkan would combine the technique of linear perspective, which he learned from a treatise, with his own ukiyo-e styled paintings.
caption: Chantilly porcelain pot, painted with bamboo and prunus and two birds; 1730–1735, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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