Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi: AmerikajinTITLE TRANSLATION:People of various nations: Americans. – Vintage 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: Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi: AmerikajinTITLE TRANSLATION:People of various nations: Americans., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi: AmerikajinTITLE TRANSLATION:People of various nations: Americans.
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This sheet shows an American man in Western dress, shown smoking, from a series titled *People of Various Nations*. Published by Tsujiokaya in 1861 and signed by the artist Kuniaki, it belongs to a body of Yokohama prints made after the port opened to foreign trade in 1859, when Japanese printmakers began recording the newcomers' clothing and habits for a curious domestic audience. The tobacco pipe and the foreign tailoring are the details worth noticing, since together they mark the visitor as an outsider in the eyes of both artist and buyers.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 artist.Utagawa Kuniaki 1835-1888 artist.Utagawa Toyokuni 1786-1865 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34 x 23 cm. (block) 36.6 x 25 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Signature: Kuniaki ga. Seal date: Cock 5. From series entitled: Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi (People of various nations). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 29; 47623a (white label). Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 26 Earlier number: 4887-1. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). Source of name (100): Lane p. 294; No NAR. |
| Subjects | Americans--Clothing & dress--1860-1870. Smoking--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,631 × 4,515 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227226 |
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