Nanban art developed after the first Portuguese ships arrived in
Kyushu in 1543. While Christian
icons and other objects were produced, or folding screens are particularly notable, with over 90 pairs surviving to this day. (see figure 1). Another popular subject within Nanban art was the depiction of foreign warriors. Artists of the
Kanō school were joined by those of the
Tosa school in combining foreign subject matter with
Japanese styles of painting. Canons of western art of the period, such as
linear perspective and alternative materials and techniques, appear to have had little lasting influence in Japan. Given the
persecution and prohibition of Christianity from the end of the sixteenth century and the
Tokugawa policy of
sakoku, which largely closed Japan to foreign contact from the 1630s, Nanban art declined. File:European in Japan playing viol.jpg color modified.jpg|Painting from Momoyama period (1573-1615) by
Hasegawa Nobukata of a European woman playing a viola de mano. File:"Master Two Children" (師父二童子図).jpg|Hasegawa Nobukata painting of a religious man with children. Edo period, early 17th century. File:Attributed to Kano Sanraku - Important Cultural Property Namban Screens - Google Art Project2.jpg|Screen painting of foreign ship and Europeans in Japan. File:"Two Western Warriors" (西洋二武人図).jpg|Hasegawa Nobukata painting of two "Western warriors." Edo period, early 17th century. File:Stellschirm Hosokawa.jpg|Namban art, screen painting, circa 1600. ==Reverse influence==