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Christian Shrine with Flowers, Trees, Birds, and Beasts 

Exhibition information
There are currently no plans to exhibit this artwork at the TNM Collection Exhibitions.

This shrine was intended for export to Europe, where it would have been hung on the wall for private worship. The doors are richly decorated in Japanese lacquer, gold, silver, and seashell. Scholars believe the oil painting was created by a Spanish artist in the early 1600s after the shrine arrived in Europe.

Cultural property designation
Important Cultural Property
Quantity
Artist
Period/Century
Azuchi-Momoyama–Edo period, 16th–17th century
Country/Origin
Excavation site
Material
Lacquered wood with [maki-e] and mother-of-pearl
Size
Inscriptions
Donor
Collection reference no.
H-4446
Genre
Lacquerware
Category
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