Title Information
Title
Parts, ship view, floor plan
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; 27.3 x 269.4 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. AMERICAN PRESENTS TO THE JAPANESE: a. Five views of Bullet mold. b. Agricultural machine - could be straw cutter - Ruggi. ES Nourse Masom & Co. R.L. Allen, New York. c. Agricultural machine - cutter of some kind. d. Oval basin with two handles - probably a churn. e. Folding ladder - two views, both open and closed. f. Coin - East India Co. - Queen Victoria shown on reverse. g. Button [Navy symbol on front]. h. Cap. i. Powder bag. 2. MISCELLANEOUS PICTURES: Ship SARATOGA - entering Kanagawa Harbor from Shimada (1854). Paddle wheel. Picture of gangway showing main entrance to steamer. Ship POWHATTAN - deck. Smokestack and air vents, guns and swords mounted on cabin wall, cannon and cannon balls. At the bow of the ship a courier barge, filled with sailors. There is one man opening the door of the gun port so that a salute can be fired. 3. YOKOHAMA TREATY HOUSE: In the larger room benches are marked. The six rooms for the Japanese officials to wait in are all marked according to rank. The lower ranking officials are to be in the rooms lower down on the diagram and the higher officials are to be in the upper rooms. No waiting rooms for the Americans are shown. The small squares with circles inside are probably the toilets - there are eight of them. The two rooms marked in red at the upper part of the building are the secret conference rooms. These are off the main entertainment room.
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.1084.12
Identifier: METSID
1273003545226625
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.