AmerikaTITLE TRANSLATION:Americans. – Vintage 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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AmerikaTITLE TRANSLATION:Americans. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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AmerikaTITLE TRANSLATION:Americans.
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Rather than a single foreign visitor, this sheet shows Americans in Western dress and family groupings, a subject that set it apart from the warriors and actors that dominated Japanese woodblock prints of the period. Its title, *Amerika*, and its signature to Issen Yoshikazu place it around 1861, a few years after Japan opened its ports to foreign trade in 1859 and Westerners began settling in Yokohama. Printmakers of the time produced images like this to satisfy public curiosity about newcomers, and clothing, hats, and mannerisms were often rendered with a mix of close observation and exaggeration. The sheet is worth studying as a record of early contact seen through a Japanese artist's eyes.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 artist.Utagawa Kuniaki 1835-1888 artist.Utagawa Toyokuni 1786-1865 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 35 x 24.7 cm. (block) 37.4 x 25 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Cock 2. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 82; 47623a; 5. DLC Earlier control number: 9942.25-2. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Families--Japan--1860-1870. Americans--Clothing & dress--Japan--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 4,002 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227227 |
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