Englishwoman and a Chinese Man Traveling

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Englishwoman and a Chinese Man Traveling

1861

Utagawa Yoshifuji (Japanese, 1828–1887) Published by Sagamiya Tōkichi

The texts Yokohama prints that include phonetic vocabularies are most often written in Japanese characters. Occasionally attempts at transliterations of foreign words were made using letters of the Roman alphabet, as seen here, where "English person" is spelled "IGIRISWZIN."

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Object Details

Titles:

Englishwoman and a Chinese Man Traveling

Date:

1861

Artists:

Utagawa Yoshifuji (Japanese, 1828–1887) Published by Sagamiya Tōkichi

Medium:

Color woodcut

Dimensions:

Sheet (Ōban tate-e): 14 1/8 × 9 5/8 inches (35.9 × 24.4 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

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, 1968

Accession Number:

1968-165-21

Geography:

Made in Japan, Asia

Context:

Period: Edo Period (1615-1868)

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