- Title Information
- Title
- Grave stone and ship parts
- 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)
- 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; 26.9 x 174.5 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): 1. GRAVE OF THE MARINE WHO DIED ON THE MISSISSIPPI IN JAPANESE WATERS: Yokohama Village, Zotokuji Temple, grave of an American, Robert Williams, from Esuland. [In phonetics; probably means from the East Coast.] R.W. [These are the initials on the inside of the footstone.] Size of Footstone [in U.S.A. measurements:] Length 1 shaku 5 bu [1 shaku = 1 foot]. Width 1 shaku 4 bu [1 sun = 1/10 foot]. Thickness 1 sun 2 bu [1 bu = 1/10 of a sun]. Measurements of the grave, for the body and from marker to marker = 6 shaku. Indication given as to which way the head lies and which way for the feet. There are white letters on a black slab. Headstone: height 3 shaku 5 sun 5 bu; width: 1 shaku 2 sun 6 bu; thickness: 1 sun 7 bu. The characters over the English words on the headstone read: Monument to the memory of, personal name and official rank [not filled in or explained], warship, corps [the name of a place is incorrectly used here], departed [the word for "setting sail" is used instead of the word for "departed this life"] on board the United States Ship MISSISSIPPI, port of Yedo, Japan, 3rd month, 6th day, 1854. 24 years old. [Note written along the side.] March 6th in the American count is February 1st in the Japanese count.
- 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.1084.1
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1273002704632875
- 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.