Amerikajin no zu - pansei nokamatoTITLE TRANSLATION:Portrait of Americans - breadmaking [unidentified name]. – Historic Photograph Print
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(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 Amerikajin no zu - pansei nokamatoTITLE TRANSLATION:Portrait of Americans - breadmaking [unidentified name]., a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Amerikajin no zu - pansei nokamatoTITLE TRANSLATION:Portrait of Americans - breadmaking [unidentified name].
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Bread is what sets this sheet apart. Its title, *Amerikajin no zu*, pairs Americans with a bread oven, and the scene shows foreigners baking in a domestic setting. The print dates to 1861, a few years after Yokohama opened to foreign trade in 1859, when a small foreign community lived in a separate settlement and Japanese printmakers produced many images of their unfamiliar habits. The signature reads Yoshikazu, and the cock-year seal date places the work in 1861. It is a useful record of how early Yokohama prints presented foreign domestic life to Japanese 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 ; 33.5 x 22.5 cm. (block) 36.5 x 25 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Cock 2. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 80; 47623a. DLC Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press c1990 no. 25 (p. 102) Earlier control number: 9942.25-1. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Bread--Japan--1860-1870. Baking--Japan--1860-1870. Ovens--1860-1870. Americans--Domestic life--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,010 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227237 |
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