Historical depiction of Europeans in Japanese artwork

[Pallantides]

Adam Laxman, a Finland-Swedish military officer and one of the first Russian subjects to set foot in Japan.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Adam_Kirillovich_Laksman.jpg

Japanese nobleman with a European Jesuit
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Jesuit_with_Japanese_nobleman_circa_1600.jpg/723px-Jesuit_with_Japanese_nobleman_circa_1600.jpg

European Artillery Officer
http://i.imgur.com/3ECju.jpg

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Matthewperry.jpg/404px-Matthewperry.jpg

French-Japanese trade
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/japan-french-trade-1861-granger.jpg

Dutchmen with Japanese Cortuseans
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Dutchmen_with_Courtesans_Nagasaki_c1800.jpg

[2Cool]

Namban art of the Portuguese arrival to Japan

Kanō Naizen - (1593-1600)

http://i.imgur.com/hQCG9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xxB0T.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/M7fif.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5Q4dQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5kpz4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/AgvKZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/g3E6H.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nXUQS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bSAFl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JmTpX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ANwPM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/THeU1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UqgxJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nWKRT.jpg

[Supreme American]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Adam_Kirillovich_Laksman.jpg

Why is he painted with slant eyes?


French-Japanese trade
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/japan-french-trade-1861-granger.jpg

Hey that Nip has a serious case of cameltoe.


Dutchmen with Japanese Cortuseans
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Dutchmen_with_Courtesans_Nagasaki_c1800.jpg

What is it with the Dutch and panfaces? Amazing to this day the Japs still pimp off their women to prospective round eye business partners.

[Pallantides]

Why is he painted with slant eyes?


well there are some north europeans who can have eyes that look a bit slanty, like this Norwegian woman:
http://www.studenttorget.no/images/medium/747.gif