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Amierikajin yūkyō Title: Americans Strolling About Artist: Yoshifuji (1828-1887) 1861:2 Format: Woodblock print Medium: Ink and color on paper Dimensions: 35.4 x24.6 cm (13 15/16 x9 11/16 in.) Source: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Using the roman alphabet, the artist has written in the label the Japanese word for "Americans," dividing the syllables to arrange the characters within the traditional narrow, vertical title cartouche. An American family is the subject of the print: the father smokes a cigar while the mother carries a boy on her back. Shaded areas on the clothing and faces of the figures reveal the artist's study of light and shadow from Western pictorial art. [Adapted from Ann Yonemura, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan] Visualizing Cultures image number: Y0137 Keywords: westerners, Americans, foreign children, tobacco, foreign languages |
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