Cover of the Amazon Kindle edition of "Madame Chrysanthème".
"Madame Chrysanthème".
"Madame Chrysanthème".
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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
Enrollment in Nagano Prefecture
Enrollment rates during the 1870s and 1880s in Nagano prefecture, West of Tokyo
Bryan Platt
Burning and Building, by Bryan Platt.
2004
Graph on paper
Robert Pattinson and Christina Ricci in the 2012 film adaptation of Bel-ami
Robert Pattinson and Christina Ricci in the roles of George Duroy and Mme Marelle, respectively
Still image/digital
Declan Donnellan
Nick Ormerod
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
Monsieur et Madame Vont Dans le Monde
Bunmei Kaika
George Bigot
Art Set Societies
1887
Ink on paper
A Dance Lesson in the Rokumeikan
Ballroom Dancing, Rokumeikan
A drawing of a dance lesson being given in the Rokumeikan
Georges Bigot
Bigō sobyō korekushon, vol. 2, by Tōru Haga
Iwanami Shoten
Print
Mori Arinori
Portrait of Mori Arinori, the leader of conservative educational thought in 1880s Japan.
Henri Langerock
Boston Museum of Fine Arts; accession number 2002.276. http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/portrait-of-mori-arinori-313388
1873
Photograph; dimensions: 10.5 x 6.4 cm (4 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. )
Arte da Lingoa de Iapam
A primer of the Japanese language made for Portuguese missionaries in the 17th century.
João Rodriguez
http://www.filologia.org.br/xiv_cnlf/tomo_3/2050-2055.pdf
1604
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Kano Tadanobu
Tokugawa Memorial Foundation
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