一同属汉字文化圈的中日两国,十六世纪上半叶始同属于天主教的远东教区,两国基本在同一时期迎来了传教士们带来的西方绘画。一五四九年,日本青年弥次郎引导西班牙人、耶稣会传教士沙勿略(Francisco de Xavier,1506~1552)一行在鹿儿岛上岸,他们随身携带而来的圣母像算是西洋画传入日本的开始。~①三年后(1552),试图进入中国内地传教的沙勿略却病逝于广东台山的上川岛。然而,是时当地画坛流行的是雪舟派画法。曾在中国待过两年的雪舟等杨(1420~1506),遍仿马远、夏圭、李唐、高彦敬、牧溪、梁楷和李在笔意,回国后自 Both China and Japan, both belonging to the cultural circle of Chinese characters, belonged equally to the Catholic Parish of the Far East in the first half of the 16th century. The two countries at the same time ushered in the Western paintings brought by missionaries. In 1549, Japanese youth Mirijiro led the Spanish, Jesuit missionary Francisco de Xavier (1506 ~ 1552) and his party ashore in Kagoshima, they carry the statue of the Virgin regarded as Western painting Japan’s beginning. Three years later (1552), Xavier Island, who attempted to enter the Chinese mainland, died of Shang Chuan Island in Taishan, Guangdong Province. However, when the local art scene is popular snow boat painting method. Yangzhou (1420-1506), such as Xue Zhou who had been in China for two years, has become a leader in the world after returning to China