Kita-Amerika dai gasshukoku - jokan shozo no utsushiTITLE TRANSLATION:People of the United States of North America - portrait of commanding officer. – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Kita-Amerika dai gasshukoku - jokan shozo no utsushiTITLE TRANSLATION:People of the United States of North America - portrait of commanding officer., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Kita-Amerika dai gasshukoku - jokan shozo no utsushiTITLE TRANSLATION:People of the United States of North America - portrait of commanding officer.
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Captain Adams, commander of the steam frigate *Powhatan* in Commodore Perry's squadron, is shown here alone and up close, which sets this woodcut apart from the group scenes of the American visitors. Koizumi Minokichi cut the block in 1854, within a year of Perry's ships first reaching Edo Bay in 1853, when Japanese printmakers rushed to record the strangers. The title, which begins "People of the United States," places the sitter among those foreign visitors. A catalog note raises a fair question: the face is not flattering, so viewers may wonder whether the artist recorded a true likeness or was already caricaturing the foreigner.
| Created / published | 1854 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut ; 29 x 21.1 cm. (block) 31 x 23.4 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Shinpukan Kioroka(?) in seal. Pasted onto mat from a catalog: No. 69-B Adams a North American. Capt. Adams was Commander of the U.S.S. Powhatan one of Admiral Perrys Fleet. If the artist has successfully caught the likeness he was not a notable specimen of manly beauty; or is this the work of an early caricaturist? Large vertical print. Illustrated. DLC Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 27; 47623a (white label); LC 2585; text vocabulary on recto. DLC Earlier control number: 9615. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Military officers--American--Japan--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,079 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227719 |
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