Ryuko eigo zukushiTITLE TRANSLATION:Fashionable melange of English words. – Antique Print
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Ryuko eigo zukushiTITLE TRANSLATION:Fashionable melange of English words.
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Ryūkō eigo zukushi, or "Fashionable Melange of English Words," is a color woodcut from 1887 that plays with the Meiji-era fashion for English vocabulary in everyday Japanese speech. Its author, Kanagaki Robun, was a gesaku writer best known for the comic novel *Aguranabe*, and he brought his satirical wit to the rapid borrowing of Western words. The print appeared during a period when foreign terms were spreading from the treaty port of Yokohama into the schools, newspapers, and shops of Tokyo. Today it is valuable both as a joke about language and as a record of how quickly Japanese culture was absorbing Western influence.
| Created / published | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Kanagaki Robun 1829-1894. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 35.5 x 22 cm. (block) 36 x 24 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 169; 47623a (white label); LC2585. Yokohama ukiyoe : Reflection of the cultures of Yokohama in days of the port opening / Tsuneo Tamba. [Japan : 1962] Earlier control number: 236.3-17. 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 × 5,130 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227645 |
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