Drawings of Foreign Whalers
Drawings by Japanese of British Whalers who landed in Mito domain in 1824.
From the collection "Account, including images of various objects, of the foreign ships which arrived in Ōtsu harbor in the summer of Bunsei 7"
(文政七甲申夏異国伝馬船大津浜へ上陸并諸器図等 Bunsei shichi kōshin natsu ikoku tenmasen Ōtsuhama e jōriku narabi ni shokizu tō)
Unpaginated manuscript, Shōrakan Collection 43.
The image portrays the foreigners walking (right) and at rest (left).
Unknown. From the collection of Katō Shōra (commoner official in Mito)
Ibaraki Prefectural Library, Mito.
Unpublished
c.1824
<a href="http://www.lib.pref.ibaraki.jp/home/digital_lib/kyoudovolunteer/shora43_otuhama/shora43_otuhama_top.html">Ibaraki Prefectural Library</a>
Ryōgoku Bridge
Ryōgoku Bridge, Edo (両国橋)
Image of Ryōgoku Bridge, Edo, from Famous Places in Edo (江戸名所図絵 Edo Meisho Zue) volume 7. Woodblock print.
Sato Yukio 斎藤 幸雄 (Text)
Hasegawa Settan 長谷川 雪旦 (Pictures)
<a href="http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2563381/3">National Diet Library, Japan</a>
Suhara Yamohee (須原屋茂兵衛)
Tenpo Era 5-7 (1834-1836)
Public Domain (Copyright protection period has expired)
Woodblock printed bound Japanese book
Map of Edo
Map of Edo in the late Tokugawa era
Map of Edo, after a map by Takai Ranzan from the Tenpo era
(御江戸大絵図 [o-Edo ō-ezu] Large Map of great Edo)
Detail, centered on Edo Castle and the surrounding areas, including Edo Bay.
Unknown
<p><a href="https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/edo.html">University of Texas, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection</a></p>
Tokyo, Shōkō-dō(尚古堂)
Kōka (弘化) era (1844-1848) c. 1847
Public Domain
Color print, 118.7×132.0cm
Spinning Silk from the Cocoons
Peasant women engaging in sericulture
Hand tinted photograph from Brinkley's ten-volume collection, <em>Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, with an essay on Japanese art by Kakuzo Okakura</em> (Tokyo and Boston: Millet: 1897-98)
Francis Brinkley (photographer unidentified)
<p><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/gt_japan_people/index.html">MIT Visualizing Cultures</a></p>
<p>Part of the Unit "Globetrotters' Japan: People" by Allen Hockley</p>
Millet (Tokyo and Boston)
c.1897-1898
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Hand tinted photograph
The U.S.S. Columbus and Vincennes in Japan
Depiction of Commodore Biddle's ships in Edo Bay, 1846
Lithograph depicting U.S. ships anchored in Edo Bay in 1846 and surrounded by small Japanese boats.
The text at the bottom reads:
"On the 20th of July 1846, the U.S. Ships Columbus & Vincennes entered the Bay of Jeddo or (as the Japanese call it) Yeddo. The Ships stood well up the Bay until the Japanese, who had come on board, mentioned that they must not proceed further, and the Commodore not wishing to give offense anchored abreast a village, and about three miles from the shore. As soon as the Ships anchored they were surrounded by a large number of boats from whose warlike appearance much difficulty was not anticipated. Shortly after the sails were furled, the Commanders were politely requested to land their guns, ammunition, muskets & everything in the shape of a weapon, which request was as politely refused. The Anchorage was about 15 miles to the S(outh) and E(ast) of Yedo, which was hidden by a high point of land making out into the Bay. The Country around was beautifully green and the fields as well as could be distinguished from the ships were in fine order and to all appearance well cultivated. No person was allowed to land; and boats passing between one ship and the other were always followed by at least four Japanese armed boats to prevent their landing; and therefore there was no good opportunity of judging as to what the real state of the country might be. The visit altogether was one of the most novel kind. The people polite, amiable and exceedingly jealous of their customs, and adhered strictly to the long established one of not receiving the slightest remuneration for anything that they gave. The visitors were politely informed that as soon as their wants were made known they would be attended to and that done they were desired to leave and never return again. The Ships sailed from there on the 29th after an interesting stay of nine days, during which time hundreds of Japanese visited the Ships, and to hasten their departure, formed a line of several hundred boats to tow the vessels out to sea, and left rejoicing that they had rid themselves so easily of such a number of Barbarians."
Based on sketches by John Eastly
<p><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai/bss_essay01.html">MIT Visualizing Cultures</a></p>
<p><span>Part of the essay: Black Ships and Samurai by John W. Dower</span></p>
Wagner & McGuigan, Philadelphia
1848
Peabody Essex Museum
Folio Lithograph
Broadsheet portrait of Perry
Commodore Matthew Perry
Black and white kawaraban (broadsheet) image of Perry.
The title reads: "A true likeness of the commanding officer from the Republic of North America"
北亜墨利加洪和政治洲上官真像之写 (kita amerika kyowa seiji shū jōkan shinzō no utsushi)
Unknown
<p><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai/gallery/pages/30_044_PerryKawaraban.htm">MIT Visualizing Cultures</a></p>
<p>Part of the essay: Black Ships and Samurai by John W. Dower</p>
Unknown
1854
<a href="http://www.izu.co.jp/~ryosenji/eigo.html">Ryosenji Treasure Museum</a>
Monochrome printed broadsheet (kawaraban)
The Tale of Sakura Sōgo
Sakura Sōgo bids farewell to his wife and children.
Nishiki-e (Multi-colored woodblock Print)
From the series "A New Collection of Eastern Colour Prints"
(新撰東錦絵: Shinsen azuma nishiki-e)
Japanese title: 佐倉宗吾之話 (Sakura Sōgo no hanashi)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
<a href="http://data.ukiyo-e.org/famsf/images/3306201407170042.jpg">Ritsumeikan University</a>
Meiji Era (c.1885-1886)
<a href="http://art.famsf.org/tsukioka-yoshitoshi/story-sakura-sogo-sakura-sogo-no-hanashi-series-new-selection-eastern-brocades">Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco</a>
Large size woodblock print diptych
The Treasury of Loyal Retainers: Act Eleven, Scene Three
The Capture of Moronao by the 46 Rōnin.
Nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock print)
Part of a series depicting the events of Chūshingura.
Japanese Title: 忠臣蔵: 夜打三 本望 (Chūshingura youchi san: honmō)
Utagawa Hiroshige
<p><a href="http://data.ukiyo-e.org/ritsumei/images/arcUP4657.jpg">Ritsumeikan University</a></p>
Post mid-Tenpo era (c.1840)
Ritsumeikan University
Large Size Woodblock Print