Kawahara Keiga
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Kawahara Keiga was a late Edo period Japanese painter of plants, fishes, birds, reptiles, crustaceans, social scenes, landscapes and portraits at the Dutch Factory of Dejima, and at Edo, Kyoto and Nag
Dutchmen with a servant, Kawahara Keiga, around 1823-1826.
Pagrus major (Red seabream), by Kawahara Keiga, 1823-1829
Carmichael’s Monkshood (Aconitum napellus, Aconitum carmichaelii, Aconitum japonicum subsp. napiforme?)
Common mallow (Malva sylvestris)
Dejima
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Dejima or Deshima, in the 17th century also called Tsukishima, was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan, that served as a trading post for the Portuguese and subsequently the Dutch. For 220 years,
Kawahara Keiga
…was a late Edo period Japanese painter of plants, fishes, birds, reptiles, crustaceans, social scenes, landscapes and portraits at the Dutch Factory of Dejima, and at Edo, Kyoto and Nagasaki. His works can be found in museums in Japan (about a hundred works) and in the Netherlands (about a thousand), among…
An imagined bird's-eye view of Dejima's layout and structures (copied from a woodblock print by Toshimaya Bunjiemon of 1780 and published in Isaac Titsingh's Bijzonderheden over Japan (1824/25)
A Dutchman with his servant at Dejima (18th-century painting by unknown artist, British Museum collection)
A 2017 model of Dejima in the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden, Netherlands
A central part of reconstructed Dejima, Nagasaki, 2007