Prints are gifts of Ambassador William and Florence Leonhart, reproduced courtesy
of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2005 Visualizing Cultures |
...as it sails past Uraga, the site of Commodore Perry’s 1853 landing.
Sadahide The Observer:
Japanese Steamship
This modern steamship proudly flies a Japanese flag...
Ten years after Commodore Perry’s black ships burst into Japanese history...
The artist Sadahide, who displayed so much enthusiasm toward Western customs in Yokohama...
...expressed his pride in Japan’s mastery of new technology in his 1863 print.
The all-Japanese crew is dressed in kimono and armed with the swords of samurai.
...portrays the state where the first Japanese embassy to the US landed in March 1860.
...a modern Japanese ship glides past Uraga, framing Mount Fuji between its mast and smokestack.
Sadahide’s imaginary view of California...
Yokohama Boomtown! © 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
A Project of Professors John W. Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa
Design and production by Ellen Sebring, Scott Shunk, and Andrew Burstein
Based on the catalogue of the 1990 exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan,
by Ann Yonemura. © 1990 Smithsonian Institution
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