Ryuko eigo zukushiTITLE TRANSLATION:Fashionable melange of English words. – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Ryuko eigo zukushiTITLE TRANSLATION:Fashionable melange of English words., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ryuko eigo zukushiTITLE TRANSLATION:Fashionable melange of English words.
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*Ryuko eigo zukushi*, whose title translates roughly as "fashionable melange of English words," pokes fun at the flood of English vocabulary entering Japanese speech in the 1880s. Its maker, Kanagaki Robun (1829–1894), was a writer of comic popular fiction, and the print reads as both a joke and a snapshot of everyday language. The seal date of Meiji 20 places it in 1887, a few decades after Yokohama opened to foreign trade, when English borrowings were becoming a mark of up-to-date taste. Worth noticing is how the print turns that linguistic fashion into visual wordplay.
| Created / published | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Kanagaki Robun 1829-1894. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33.5 x 22.6 cm. (block) 36 x 24.2 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Seal date: Meiji 20. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 170; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 41. Yokohama ukiyoe : Reflection of the cultures of Yokohama in days of the port opening / Tsuneo Tamba. [Japan : 1962] Earlier control number: 236.3-18. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Japanese language--1880-1890. English language--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,092 × 5,096 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227644 |
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