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Photo, Print, Drawing American on Horseback, 1862.

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Title

  • American on Horseback, 1862.

Summary

  • This ink and color wood-block print by Utagawa Yoshikazu (active 1848--63) was published in Edo (Toyko) in 1862. It depicts an American naval officer in black coat and top hat on a rearing brown horse, a dog in the foreground and civilians nearby. Along the top edge is a caption in Japanese which reads Kita Amerika shû no uchi Gasshûkoku mata Kyôwa seiji shû (On the North American Continent, the United States, also called the Republic). It comes from a series known as Foreigners from the Five Nations. The image relates to the years following Commodore Matthew C. Perry's two naval expeditions to Japan in 1852--53 and 1854, when Westerners were becoming an increasingly common sight in cities such as Yokohama, and it provides an interesting Japanese impression of a foreigner. Yoshikazu is best known for Yokohama-e: prints depicting Westerners from the enclave of this city. The print is from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at the Brown University Library.

Names

  • Utagawa, Yoshikazu, flourished 1848-1863 Artist.

Created / Published

  • Tokyo : [publisher not identified], 1862.

Headings

  • -  Japan
  • -  1862
  • -  Americans
  • -  Dogs
  • -  Horseback riding
  • -  Military officers
  • -  Portrait prints
  • -  Portraits
  • -  United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
  • -  Woodcuts

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 woodcut; 23.7 x 34.5 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Brown University Library.
  • -  Content in Japanese.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670157

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Utagawa, Yoshikazu, Flourished Artist. American on Horseback. Japan, 1862. [Tokyo: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670157/.

APA citation style:

Utagawa, Y. (1862) American on Horseback. Japan, 1862. [Tokyo: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670157/.

MLA citation style:

Utagawa, Yoshikazu, Flourished Artist. American on Horseback. [Tokyo: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670157/>.