[American sailor drinking] – Vintage Wall Art
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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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [American sailor drinking]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few images from the early 1850s show the arrival of American sailors through Japanese eyes as directly as this woodcut. It records a moment from Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition, which anchored in Edo Bay in 1853 and returned in 1854 to press for a treaty opening Japanese ports to American trade. The print is credited to Kanagaki Robun, a writer and illustrator of the period, and its subject is ordinary and a little comic: crewmen sitting down to drink, a scene that drew great curiosity from Japanese viewers who had little contact with foreigners. Printed in color, it is a useful record of how the visitors were seen by the people they encountered.
| Created / published | 1854 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Kanagaki Robun 1829-1894. |
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut color. |
| Notes | Title and other information based on entry for item in exhibition catalog. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ... 2001 no. 103 p. 166. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows dreams and substances organized by the Library of Congress 2001. Preliminary catalog record |
| Subjects | United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) Sailors--American--Japan--1850-1860. Eating & drinking--Japan--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,695 × 4,585 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227637 |
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