Museum of the Orient
Museum of Asian art documenting Portugal's maritime encounters and exchanges across the Far East.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Museum of the Orient in Lisbon starts with a former codfish warehouse turned gallery, then settles on a set of Japanese folding screens depicting the Portuguese arriving by black ship in the fifteen-forties. You'll hear what Japanese artists called these strangers, the details they captured accurately, and the ones they had to invent. It traces nearly a century of trade in silk, firearms and faith that followed.
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