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Image Title: Bankoku Jinbutsu Zue - Amerikajin, 1861

Creator: Utagawa, Yoshitsuya, 1822-1866, artist

Date: 1861.

Summary: Japanese print shows a full-length portrait of a man, standing, facing left, holding a cane.

Notes: Poem by Kanagaki Robun on recto of print: Shiohigata minato ni narabu kotofune wa namima ni ouru shinkir? kamo (The ships lined up in the harbor at low tide seem a mirage).|Foreigners in Japan: Yokohama and related woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: The Museum, 1972, no. 158 (p. 38)

Related Names: Matsushima, Seikichi|Kanagaki, Robun, 1829-1894.

Subjects: Clothing & dress--Japan--1860-1870
Foreign visitors--American--Japan--1860-1870

Original Media: Woodcut print

Collections: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 » more info...

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