Pretties.

[gurdymonkey]

My Twelfh Night ensemble is gorgeous. GORGEOUS, I tell you.

I stil have enough of that green Thai silk that Ii-dono and Abe-hime sent me last winter that I could easily make something else out of it. Maybe a cocktail dress or something. I wish I had more of that silk with the sayagata pattern. That was just too lucky.
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As mentioned in a comment to my previous post, there is a genre known as "Namban Art" that arose as a result of contact between Japan and Europe in the 16th century and after.
Some examples (be sure to click on the zoom features, they're worth it): 

http://67.52.109.59/code/emuseum.asp?style=browse&currentrecord=1&quicksearch=namban

http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=29714

http://www.artfund.org/artwork/7144/japanese-lacquer-cabinet-in-namban-style

Interesting as these are Christian artifacts.
http://artistlevel.org/pt/article/namban-oratory
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/l/lacquer_pyx_sacrament_box.aspx
as is the third item on page 4 of this gallery
http://www.asianart.org/samuraigallery/samuraigallery.html

Dutchmen were a fairly popular subject for netsuke (ornamental toggles).
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/w/wooden_netsuke,_a_dutchman_and.aspx

And then there's the Black Ship Scroll depicting the arrival of Matthew Perry (no, not THAT Matthew Perry) in Japan in 1853.
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai/bss_scroll_03b.html

EDIT: See response to bronx_baroness ' comment. I forgot I had some still photos from the netsuke collection at LACMA.