| Japan and the West: History and Art - A Brief Chronology |
| From - To |
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| 1568 - 1603 |
Azuchi-Momoyama Period - The West makes contact with Japan |
| 1542 - 1640 |
Portuguese in Japan |
| 1543 |
Three Portuguese seaman drift ashore Tanegashima, Kyushu |
| 1549 |
Francis Xavier - Spanish Jesuit missionary arrives in Kagoshima |
| 1557 |
Portuguese leasing of Macau and start of China trade paintings |
| 1580 - 1587 |
Nagasaki leased to Portuguese Jesuits |
| 1590 |
Giovanni (Nicaola) Colla Italian Jesuit founded school of Western painting in Kumamoto |
| 1590 |
Unification of Japan by Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
| 1600 |
De Liefde first Dutch ship to reach Nagasaki |
| 1603 - 1868 |
Nagasaki Ei - Edo Period begins with Tokuogawa Ieyasu |
| 1609 |
Dutch establish trading post in Hirado |
| 1614 |
Missionaries expelled from Japan |
| 1616 |
Trade with countries other than China restricted to Hirado and Nagasaki |
| 1636 - 1639 |
Portuguese segregated to Dejima Island |
| 1639 - 1853 |
Sakoku Period - Japan closed to all foreigners . Trade limited to China, the Dutch and the Ryukyu Kingdom |
| 1641 |
Dutch establish factory on Dejima Island formerly occupied by Portuguese |
| 1680 |
De Chom Van Subali (Oil Painting) |
| 1804 |
Russian envoy Nicolai Rezanov arrives in Nagasaki aboard the warship Nadezhda |
| 1843 |
Robert George Davis Tosswill, Royal Navy Officer |
| 1800 - 1900 |
China Trade Paintings |
| 1752 - 1842 |
Canton & Hong trading system between China and the West |
| 1840 |
British establish themselves in Hong Kong |
| 1841 |
British arrive in Canton (Guangzhou) |
| 1843 |
British expand to Shanghai |
| 1853 - 1868 |
Transition in Opening of Japan to the West - Edo Ei & Yokohama-Ei |
| 1615 - 1868 |
Edo Era Paintings |
| 1853 - 1854 |
Matthew Perry visits Japan twice |
| 1853 - 1868 |
Yokohama-ei wood block prints |
| 1874 - 1911 |
Shunso Hishida |
| 1868 - 1912 |
Meiji Period (1868-1912) and Travel and Exploration All |
| 1500 - 1800 |
Mughal paintings |
| 1809 - 1854 |
William Henry Bartlett (Damascus) |
| 1838 - 1912 |
Chikanobu Toyohara prints |
| 1838 - 1902 |
Pierre-Marie Beyle |
| 1844 - 1907 |
Henri Somm |
| 1854 - 1922 |
Ralph Wormeley Curtis (India) |
| 1855 - 1938 |
Mortimer Mempes |
| 1859 - 1939 |
Theodore Wores (1859-1939) visits Japan and again in |
| 1860 - 1923 |
John Charles Arter |
| 1860 - 1927 |
Georges Ferdinand Bigot |
| 1860 - 1924 |
Louis-Jules Dumoulin |
| 1868 |
Kobe opened to foreign trade and settlement |
| 1873 - 1944 |
Joseph De La Nézières |
| 1884 - 1956 |
Samuel Mutzner |
| 1886 - 1969 |
Saika Yagi |
| 1895 - 1974 |
Roland Straser |
| 1896 - 1960 |
Paul Jacoulet |
| 1896 |
Choueke House built |
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Modern Art: Taisho (1912 - 1926) Period & Showa Period (1926-1986) |
| 1853 - 1941 |
Maximilien Luce |
| 1865 - 1934 |
Isaac Israels |
| 1867 - 1943 |
Ito Hoshihiko |
| 1874 - 1911 |
Shunso Hishida |
| 1876 - 1954 |
Kono Micao arrives in Paris in the early 1920s |
| 1877 - 1962 |
Herman Hesse |
| 1880 - 1954 |
Andre Derain |
| 1881 - 1968 |
Blanche Camus |
| 1886 - 1957 |
Diego Rivera in Paris from 1907-192. Friendship with Foujita continues in Mexico in 1932. |
| 1893 - 1963 |
Dietz Edzard |
| 1895 - 1973 |
Bando Toshio arrives in Paris in 1922 |
| 1896 - 1968 |
Foujita Leonard Tsuguharu arrives in Paris in 1913 |
| 1896 - 1948 |
Koyanagui Sei arrives in Paris in 1920 |
| 1899 - 1985 |
Marcel Dyf |
| 1900 - 1984 |
Nomiyama Koichi exhibits in San Francisco |
| 1901 - 1986 |
Oguiss Takanori - 1927 arrives in Paris |
| 1903 - 1988 |
Koiso Ryohei (1903-1988) Kobe artist recognized with Asahi Prize |
| 1905 - 1989 |
Masuda Makoto |
| 1906 - 1978 |
Osakabe Gin |
| 1908 - 2000 |
Vu Cao Dam (Viet Nam) |
| 1909 |
Walter Simpson Parke |
| 1923 |
Great Kanto Earthquake |
| 1930 - 1989 |
Ukita Katsumi |
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Okuda Kenzo |
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Choueke Family Dates |
| 1902 - 1991 |
Ezra Choueke born in Aleppo, Syria |
| 1919 - 2019 |
Polissa (Lucy) Choueke born in Aleppo, Syria |
| 1933 |
Ezra Choueke arrives to Kobe from Aleppo |
| 1936 |
Ezra Choueke, his bride Lucy and mother, Farida arrive in Kobe on the SS Conte Verde |
| 1938 - 2006 |
Frieda Choueke Saadeh |
| 1940 |
Birth of Simone |
| 1943 |
Birth of Jack |
| 1944 |
Original Choueke residence bombed and burned |
| 1945 |
Birth of Tony |
| 1954 |
Choueke Family acquires and moves into current residence |
| 2019 |
Ezra T Choueke & Edward J Choueke, grandsons of Ezra and Lucy assume responsibilities of the Choueke House |
