Prints, Drawings, and Photographs A Banquet in a Foreign Merchant's House at Yokohama Made in Japan, AsiaEdo Period (1615-1868), 1861 Utagawa Sadahide, Japanese, c. 1807 - 1873. Published by Daikokuya Heikichi, Shōjudō. Engraved by Yokokawa Takejirō. Color woodcut Currently not on view 1968-165-15 |
Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund and with funds contributed by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner, Dr. Emanuel Wolff, the Derald and Janet Ruttenberg Foundation, Mrs. Edward G. Budd, Jr., and David P. Willis, 1968LabelVisitors from countries that did not have treaties with Japan were permitted entry with the sponsorship of a member of a treaty nation. Westerners were frequently accompanied by people from China and India, examples of whom are shown here waiting on an Englishman. Chinese men served as both domestic servants and, more significantly, as mercantile assistants who could translate written Japanese texts. Indian men, easily identified by their turbans and dark complexions, functioned primarily as domestic servants, particularly for the British. |
