Work and tribute diagram

Japanese: 職貢図 - しょくこうず

Genre painting from China. "Official tribute" means a tribute to the central government. It is said to have started as a record of the contributions of foreign envoys at the time, written around 539 when Xiao Yi of the Liang Dynasty (later to ascend the throne and become Emperor Yuan) was in Jingzhou as a governor. In 1960, Kin Weinuo reported that a copy (11th century) of part of the record is in the Nanjing Museum. It contains drawings and descriptions of envoys from over 10 countries, and shows a barefoot Japanese envoy wearing a kosen-rufu jacket and a cloth wrapped around his waist.

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Japanese:

中国の風俗画。職貢は中央政府へのみつぎものの意。梁の蕭繹(しょうえき)（のち即位して元帝となる）が刺史として荊州にいた539年ごろ，当時の外国人使節の貢献のさまを筆録したものに始まるとされる。1960年金維諾が南京博物院にその一部の模写（11世紀）があると報告。10余国の使節の図と記述があり，広布を上衣に，布を腰に巻き，はだしの倭国(わこく)使の姿も見える。

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