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Gokakoku on kōeba
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Black and white kawaraban or Japanese early modern newsheet showing a map of the newly opened trading post at Yokohama (Kanagawa) and the Tōkaidō highway running through Kanagawa. The trading post, the meeting place where negotiations were conducted, and the buildings used by Japanese officials are shown in schematic form. The bay is shown as filled with small Japanese craft interspersed with a few large western sailing ships. At the upper middle section there is a list of the key officials responsible for negotiations with the foreigners, with their clan crests. Names of the five countries, United States, Russia, England, France and the Netherlands, permitted to trade are listed along the right edge. The names of the six Japanese 奉行 or Bugyōs, often translated as commissioner or magistrate, are listed on right together with their family crests. Of these Bugyōs, five were commissioners who were in charge of trade and diplomatic relations and bearing the title 國御奉行[Gaikoku onbugyo], and the sixth is titled 御軍艦奉行[On gunkan bugyo] a commissioner of warships. The map shows a government organisation called 御運上所[On unjōsho] located next to the residence of foreigners. This organisation functioned as the tax office, a customs office, and also managed imports and exports.
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Gokakoku on kōeba
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"Black and white kawaraban or newsletter showing the newly-established foreign trading post at Yokohama (Kanagawa) in 1859. The shoreline extending from Kanagawa to Kawasaki is shown at the bottom of the print, with western and Japanese ships in the bay, while the central sections show the residences of foreign merchants, the wharf, and offices of Japanese officials. Buildings are depicted in detail, with miniature human figures in the streets and on the decks of ships. A small inset section at the top left of the print provides a schematic map of the foreigners' quarters. The names of the officials responsible for negotiations with the foreigners is given in the bottom right quarter of the image, together with their clan crests. Names of the five countries permitted to trade; United States, Russia, England, France and the Netherlands, are listed along the right edge. The names of Japanese imperial officials responsible dealing with the foreign trade are listed. The names of seven Japanese 奉行 Bugyō's, often translated as commissioner or magistrate, are listed on the right. Of these men, five were commissioners who were in charge of trade and diplomatic relations titled 外國御奉行[Gaikoku on bugyō], another carries the title 御軍艦奉行[Go gunkan bugyō] a commissioner of warships and the seventh 神奈川御奉行 [Kanagawa on Bugyō] was an overseer of the port of Kanagawa. The town plan shows a government organisation called 御運上所[On unjōsho] located next to the residence of foreigners. This organisation functioned as the tax office, a customs office, and also dealt with import/export trade. This kawaraban also shows the relative sizes of Yokohama's roads for example the widths of the main commercial road, back roads and a new road are all given."
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Kawaraban : Yokohama yūjomachi
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Black and white kawaraban or news-sheet announcing the opening of a new pleasure quarter, Gankiro, exclusively for foreigners in Yokohama. Illustration shows ships from United States, Netherlands, Russia, England, France and Japan and displays a price list at the right upper corner.
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Compliments of Mason, Ehrman & Co. Tea importers : Portland, Oregon. Showing the process of preparing their famous Golden Crown brand, of Japan tea
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An accordion foldout print on Japanese paper advertising Mason, Ehrman & Co.'s Golden Crown Tea. The print is enclosed within two chrysanthemum-patterned cloth covered boards and inscribed "To Zaidee by a traveling man from Mason, Ehrman and Co. in Portland, Oregon," with the name "Gussie" inscribed on another panel. The item includes twelve color woodblock prints done by an unknown printer; eleven of the prints depict the process of preparing and shipping tea in Japan with captions below each scene. The twelfth print includes text by the company advertising the product, along with an image of a crown trademark. Scenery includes Japanese landscape, architecture, ships, and people in traditional dress. From left-to-right captions read: picking tea; carrying tea from the garden to be fired; first process native firing; second process native firing; native sifting; hand picking; pan firing at Yokohama; basket firing at Yokohama; packing & sifting and Yokohama; tea firing premises Yokohama; shipping tea by Empress of India.
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Fukushō Kihadashisu Anan no zu
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Black and white kawaraban, dating from probably the 1850s, depicts a figure who resembles other portraits of members of Perry's mission to Japan. The term used to describe his position is the Japanese equivalent of "Imperial Commissioner" - an expression originally used to designate emissaries from the Chinese imperial court, but also applied to senior members of the Perry mission. The name "Kihadansu Anan" does not correspond to the name of any members of the mission, but may be an misreading of the name of Commander Henry A. Adams or Lieutenant Joseph H. Adams. The text tells us that in response to his king's order he landed in Yokohama with an application to trade.
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Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina Drawn by Joseph Fry & Peter Jefferson in 1775
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No old shelf mark. Later reproduction of this famous map. Beneath vignette: "To the Right Honourable George Dunk Earl of Halifax First Lord Commissioner, and to the Rest of the Right Honourable and Honourable Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. This Map is most humbly Inscribed to their Lordships, By their Lordship's Most Obedient and most devoted humble Servt. Thos. Jefferys." The only published mention of the Litho-Photographic Institute in London is in The journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume 38, May 11, 1868, page 190. The publication date is based on this. Vignette: Traders at dock side. Prime meridian: Washington. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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