Bankoku jinbutsu no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:People of many nations. – Historic 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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This rare historic print captures Bankoku jinbutsu no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:People of many nations. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bankoku jinbutsu no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:People of many nations.
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This diptych from Nagasaki includes a distance chart that measures the world in ri, a Japanese unit of roughly 2.4 miles. Its inscriptions place England at about 11,500 ri from Japan, the "pygmy country" and "woman country" at 14,000 ri each, and the "black people country" at 75,000 ri. Nagasaki was the one port where Japan kept limited contact with Dutch and Chinese traders, and much of what Japanese knew of the outside world came through them and their books. Sheets like this one show both the curiosity of the early nineteenth century and the uneven information behind it.
| Created / published | 1800 |
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| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33 x 44 cm. (block) 35 x 47.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Diptych. Nagasaki print. Sample translations of inscriptions of distance chart: England-11500 ri; pygmy country-14000 ri; woman country-14000 ri; black people country-75000 ri (1 ri = 2.4 miles). From series entitled: Bankoku jinbutsu no zu (People of many nations). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 47623a; 193. Earlier control number: 193. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Ethnic groups--1800-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,030 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227342 |
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