Amerikajin no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Portrait of Americans. – 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: Amerikajin no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Portrait of Americans., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Amerikajin no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:Portrait of Americans.
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This print's title, *Amerikajin no zu* (Portrait of Americans), sets it apart from many foreigner pictures of the period by focusing on an American family, with the subject tags noting a mother breastfeeding. It dates to 1861, a few years after Japan opened ports such as Yokohama to foreign trade and residence, when Japanese printmakers produced a steady stream of images of unfamiliar newcomers. The design bears the signature of Yoshitora, a prominent ukiyo-e artist known for these pictures, and the woodcut was carved and printed by Koizumi Minokichi. Prints like this one offer a view of how Japanese artists and audiences pictured Westerners in the years just after the ports opened.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Koizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 36 x 25 cm. (block) 37.3 x 25.3 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Cock 2. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 126; 47623a (white label); kiruro (unidentified price code(?) written in Japanese). DLC Earlier control number: 9942.3-15. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--American--Japan--1860-1870. Families--Japan--1860-1870. Breast feeding--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,932 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227262 |
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