Bankoku zukushi - AmerikajinTITLE TRANSLATION:About foreign lands - Americans. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Bankoku zukushi - AmerikajinTITLE TRANSLATION:About foreign lands - Americans., a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Among the sheets in the *Bankoku zukushi* ("All the Countries of the World") series, this one turns to Americans, who are shown in Western dress that would have looked strange to a Japanese viewer of the time. Utagawa Yoshitora signed the design, and the print was issued by the publisher Yamadaya Shōbei in 1860, the Year of the Monkey, when foreign traders and diplomats had only recently begun living in treaty ports such as Yokohama and Nagasaki. Prints in this series served as illustrated guides to the wider world, so the clothing and figures are worth studying as a record of how Japanese artists pictured Americans just after the country reopened to foreign contact.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 artist.Utagawa Kuniaki 1835-1888 artist.Utagawa Toyokuni 1786-1865 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 36 x 23.5 cm. (block) 36.5 x 24.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Monkey 12. From series entitled: Bankoku zukushi (About foreign lands). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 121; 47623a. DLC Earlier control number: 9942-10. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--American--Japan--1860-1870. Americans--Clothing & dress--Japan--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,971 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227228 |
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