Dutch mansions in Dejima, Nagasaki

This handscroll painting of the Dutch mansions in Dejima, Nagasaki was created in the 18th century. It depicts the lodgings of the Dutch traders after they had been ordered to relocate to the small articfial island Dejima in the bay of Nagasakiin in 1641. Beginning in the 1630s the ruling Tokugawa shogunate had begun to severely restrict European presence in Japan.

Dutch mansions in Dejima, Nagasaki (Nagasaki Dejima Rankan no zu), ink painting, 18th century, unknown artist; source: Chester Beatty Library, https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/J_1131/1/LOG_0000/, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en.