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<mods:title>Grave stone and ship parts</mods:title>

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<mods:namePart>Dring, Hideko</mods:namePart>

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<mods:name type="personal">

<mods:namePart>Smith, Sarah Anne Greene</mods:namePart>

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<mods:namePart>Preservation Society of Newport County</mods:namePart>

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<mods:typeOfResource>still image</mods:typeOfResource>



<mods:genre authority="aat">scroll paintings</mods:genre>



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<mods:placeTerm type="text">Japan</mods:placeTerm>

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<mods:dateCreated encoding="w3cdtf" keyDate="yes" qualifier="questionable">1854</mods:dateCreated>

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<mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">jpn</mods:languageTerm>

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<mods:extent>portion of scroll; 26.9 x 174.5 cm.</mods:extent>

<mods:digitalOrigin>reformatted digital</mods:digitalOrigin>

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<mods: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.</mods:abstract>



<mods:note type="ownership">Owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County.</mods:note>



<mods: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.</mods:note>



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<mods:title>Perry in Japan : a Visual History</mods:title>

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<mods:identifier type="URI">http://dl.lib.brown.edu/perry</mods:identifier>

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<mods:title>Japan Expedition under Commodore Perry</mods:title>

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<mods:identifier displayLabel="Preservation Society of Newport County Accession No." type="local">PSNC.1084.1</mods:identifier>



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