Prints, Drawings, and Photographs A Frenchwoman and a Dutchman Made in Japan, AsiaEdo Period (1615-1868), Yokohama school, 1860 Ochiai Yoshiiku, Japanese, 1833 - 1904. Published by Ōmiya Kyūjirō (Kinkyū). Engraved by Katada Chōjirō, Buneidō. Color woodcut Currently not on view 1968-165-28 |
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, 1968LabelA number of Yokohama prints include phonetic vocabularies intended to aid in the translation of the languages of the Westerners with whom the Japanese interacted. The text in the box at the top of this print offers Japanese transliterations of Dutch words related to meteorology and geography. |
