TY - JOUR
T1 - Elemental analysis by portable Ag and Rh X-ray sources of a Namban type folding screen
AU - Pessanha, Sofia
AU - Gac, Agnès Le
AU - Madeira, Teresa Isabel
AU - Guerra, Mauro
AU - Carvalho, Maria Luisa
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors would like to thank the owner of the screen for allowing the investigation, Salvarte atelier for its full support in this research, and Prof. Alexandra Curvelo for aiding the study. Sofia Pessanha wishes to thank Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology for the PhD Grant SFRH/BD/60778/2009 .
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This work focuses on the characterization of the materials used in a Japanese Namban type folding screen. Namban is the art style inspired by the arrival of the southern barbarians or Nambanjin to Japan in 1543, and the commercial trade then initiated. Energy dispersive X ray spectrometry (EDXRF) was used and complemented with Raman spectroscopy. The unexpected aspect about this screen concerns the brownish- grey color over which the characters stand instead of the usual golden color obtained by gilding. To better assess the elemental composition of the background and, most importantly, conclude about the presence of precious metals, an X-ray tube with Rh anode was used supporting the results obtained with the Ag one.
AB - This work focuses on the characterization of the materials used in a Japanese Namban type folding screen. Namban is the art style inspired by the arrival of the southern barbarians or Nambanjin to Japan in 1543, and the commercial trade then initiated. Energy dispersive X ray spectrometry (EDXRF) was used and complemented with Raman spectroscopy. The unexpected aspect about this screen concerns the brownish- grey color over which the characters stand instead of the usual golden color obtained by gilding. To better assess the elemental composition of the background and, most importantly, conclude about the presence of precious metals, an X-ray tube with Rh anode was used supporting the results obtained with the Ag one.
KW - EDXRF
KW - Namban
KW - Raman
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885173284&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.nimb.2013.01.078
DO - 10.1016/j.nimb.2013.01.078
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84885173284
VL - 309
SP - 254
EP - 259
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
SN - 0168-583X
ER -