Yokohama kenbutsu zue - Public domain portrait engraving

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Yokohama kenbutsu zue - Public domain portrait engraving

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Summary

Japanese print shows a woman holding a violin sitting in a room in a foreign settlement house. She is looking at a soldier, who may be her husband, holding a rifle and standing on the right. He is depicted outside the room, possibly as a figment of her imagination.

Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga.
Engraving attributed to: Hori Take.
Seal date: Monkey 11.
Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 79; 47623a.
Inscriptions: Ikokujin (Foreigner), Dōnyonin (Foreign woman).
Earlier control number: 9942.2-1.
Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).
Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
Print is creased, obscuring title.

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Date

01/01/1860
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Location

Kumagaya-shi (Japan)
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.

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