AmerikatsujinTITLE TRANSLATION:Americans. – 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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A window into the past: AmerikatsujinTITLE TRANSLATION: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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AmerikatsujinTITLE TRANSLATION:Americans.
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Titled *Amerikatsujin*, or "Americans," this black-and-white woodcut stands out for its subject: foreign visitors and military men from the United States, at a time when Japanese viewers had little direct contact with Americans. For most of the Edo period, the shogunate confined foreign trade largely to the Dutch and Chinese at Nagasaki, so printed images of Americans were rare and likely drew on secondhand reports. The engraver, Matsushima Seikichi, cut the block on hōsho paper. The record notes that the accompanying text may be by Kōtaku Kioro, a detail worth weighing when considering the print's date and purpose.
| Created / published | 1800 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Matsushima Seikichi engraver. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut b&w ; 14.5 x 20.0 (block) 18 x 23.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Text may be by Kōtaku Kioro. Mounted with no. 5 b. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 26; 47623a. On recto: 26-1. Earlier control number: 4798.5-1. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). No NAR for 700; what is image about? |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--American--Japan--1800-1900. Military personnel--American--Japan--1800-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227657 |
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