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Dutch masters shipped to Japan |
In 1600, at the start of the Dutch Golden Age, the ship the Liefde stranded on the coast of the Japanse island Kyushu. This would be the start of a long trade relationship between Japan and the Netherlands. Soon a first trade post was opened in the Japanse town of Hirado. This was later moved to the island Deshima in the bay of Nagasaki. | | | | | |  |
Recently the city council of Hirado developed a plan to increase the focus on this illustrious history. To do this, the factory that once stood in Hirado will be rebuilt on the old original foundation. The buildings will serve as museums and will be decorated with Dutch masters that will depict the 400 years of trade relationships between the Netherlands and Japan.
| | | | | | Pictura, in combination with mr. Tanseisha and mr. Gotoh of Japan Euro Promotions, the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, the Rijksmuseum, the Nationaal Archief, the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam and a private collector, has made reproductions of many seventeenth century paintings. It has made many realistic prints on canvas or etching paper, varnished them, stretched them and framed them. After being carefully packaged and crated, the prints were shipped to Japan. There the forged collection, perfect copies barely distinguishable from the originals, will find its places in the rebuilt factory. |
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