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Map of Edo Bay showing the Japanese defense force protecting the coast after Commodore Perry's fist landing near Uraga in July 1853

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Year:
1854
Genre:
woodcut prints
Subject:
Perry, Matthew Calbraith > 1794-1858
United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Extent:
1 broadside 29 x 37 cm.

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Abstract:
Woodblock print; map showing Edo Bay with the Miura Peninsula, and a part of the Sagami Bay, from Odawara to Sunosaki, with all coastal cities and villages, the names and heraldic devices of their warlords and a number of the troops under their command. Two of Perry̕s black ships are shown in the waters of the Edo Bay, one with a note about its size (the length is 80 ken or 145 m and the width is 35 ken or 64 m). In the lower right corner, there is a portrait of a foreigner armed with two swords.
Notes:
Small oblong folio.
Bowen Island, BC, The Wayfarer's Bookshop, 2017
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

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"Map of Edo Bay showing the Japanese defense force protecting the coast after Commodore Perry's fist landing near Uraga in July 1853" (1854). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:nn2gt3zr/

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