- Title Information
- Title
- Name cards, sword, and scabbard
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Dring, Hideko
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- translator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Smith, Sarah Anne Greene
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- translator
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Preservation Society of Newport County
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- owner
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- scroll paintings
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- ja
- Place Term:
Text
- Japan
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes", qualifier="questionable")
- 1854
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- jpn
- Physical Description
- Extent
- portion of scroll; 26.7 x 113.6 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Portion of framed scroll, dated 1854 according to the Preservation Society of Newport County; executed by Japanese artists to document Commodore Matthew Perry's opening of trade with Japan.
- Note:
ownership
- Owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County.
- Note
- Translation (right to left): Size of cards is 1 sun 5 bu by 2 sun 5 bu. 1. H.A. Adams -- Captain of the Fleet. 2. [illegible] 3. [in Chinese characters -- probably by the Chinese interpreter, Lo] 4. [Long sheet, 1st line illegible]. [Next three lines] -- The United States Ship Frigate MISSISSIPPI. 5. Sword: size 3 shaku 5 bu. Handle is 4 su 8 bu. The brown part of the hilt is rusty iron. 6. Scabbard -- length 3 shaku 2 sun. The metal at the top is brass and also wire. Main part is of polished iron.
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Perry in Japan : a Visual History
- Identifier:
COLID
- 8
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/perry
- Related Item:
series
- Title Information
- Title
- Japan Expedition under Commodore Perry
- Non Sort
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="Preservation Society of Newport County Accession No.")
- PSNC.1084.3
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1273000385195375
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.