Amerika jokan hansui o gansuru no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:American lady playing accordion. – Antique 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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This historic print of Amerika jokan hansui o gansuru no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:American lady playing accordion. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Amerika jokan hansui o gansuru no zuTITLE TRANSLATION:American lady playing accordion.
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A foreign woman playing an accordion, with a dog at her side, is the unusual subject of this woodcut, which is titled *Amerika jokan hansui o gansuru no zu* ("American lady playing accordion"). It belongs to the series *Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu* ("Life Sketches of Foreigners"), issued by the artist Gountei Sadahide, who was known for depicting Westerners in the treaty port of Yokohama after it opened to foreign trade in 1859. Such prints were popular with Japanese viewers curious about unfamiliar clothing, customs and objects, and the accordion, then a recent import, would have seemed a striking novelty.
| Created / published | 304 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 36 x 24 cm. (block) 37 x 25 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Seal date: Monkey. From series entitled: Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu (Life sketch of foreigners). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 26 (with slash crossing it out); 45; 47623a (white label); LC2585. DLC Foreigners in Japan: Yokohama and related woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: The Museum 1972 no. 27 (p. 24) Earlier control number: 7710-7. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Foreign visitors--American--Japan--1860. Women--Social life--Japan--1860. Accordions--1860. Dogs--Japan--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,709 × 4,530 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227205 |
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