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Melange of vehicles. Japanese print shows various forms of transportation employed by people, including a train, horse-drawn carriage, horse-drawn trolley, rickshaw, bicycle, hand-drawn carts
Chinese, Russian. Japanese print shows Chinese man holding a paintbrush while an assistant mixes ink as a Russian military officer looks on. Date 1860
People of various nations: Dutch ladies. Japanese print showing two standing women in Western dress. Date 1861
Foreign circus in Yokohama. Japanese triptych print shows a foreign circus performing in Yokohama, Japan. Date 1864?
English man sorting fabrics for trade in Yokohama. Japanese print shows a merchant examining cloth which possibly reminds him of his wife
People from foreign lands - Americans. Japanese print shows an American man smoking a cigarette while horseback riding. Date 1861
Japanese navy department tests balloons in front of the American Consulate. Date 1867
Steam train passing through Shiodama (Shimbashi), Tokyo. Japanese triptych print (one section only) showing a train at a train station with Japanese and foreign people in the foreground. Date ca. 1870
Englishman dancing in Yokohama. Japanese print shows an Englishman dancing while a Japanese woman plays the shamisen, Yokohama, Japan. Date 1861
Melange of fashionable vehicles. Japanese print shows a variety of vehicles, including rickshaws, a coach, a hand-drawn cart, wheeled devices powered by hands and feet, paddleboats
Chinese from Nanking admire Koshu fan. Japanese print shows two Chinese men admiring a folding fan from Koshu (Hangzhou, China). Date 1860. Chinese from Nanking admire Koshuo fan
People of various nations: Americans. Japanese print showing standing woman and man, who is smoking a cigarette. Date 1861
Sights in Yokohama. Japanese print shows a foreign visitor standing outside a building in Yokohama, Japan. He is looking up and appears to be thinking, his thoughts depicted on the right
Foreign sightseers in famous spots of Edo - Ryogoku bridge. Japanese print shows an American man and woman sightseeing at the Ryogoku bridge in Edo (Tokyo), Japan. Date 1861
Fashionable melange of English words. Japanese print showing illustrated sampler of foreign everyday objects such as a watch, lamp
Banquet at foreign settlement house. Japanese diptych print shows a banquet taking place at a foreign settlement house; men, women, and children gathered around two tables laden with food
Foreigners enjoying themselves - English woman. Japanese print shows a woman riding sidesaddle. Date 1861
Thomas Carlyle, author. Japanese print shows Carlyle horrified to see his manuscript burn after his dog upsets a lamp. Date between 1850 and 1900
Foreign ships calling at port
Kinokuniya Sawamura Sanj-ro III as Oboshi Yuranosuke. A full-length portrait of the actor Sawamura Sanj-ro III, facing left, holding a fan, in the role of Oboshi Yuranosuke. Date 1794
Russians - Japanese translations of barbaric languages. Japanese print shows two Russian soldiers talking; includes text of Japanese translation. Date ca. 1863
American enjoying himself. Japanese print shows an American man holding a glass and a Japanese courtesan holding a bottle. Date 1861
The Daoist sage Kume (Jiumi xianren). Kume Sennin or Kume the Immortal, a recluse with the ability to travel through the air, spying on a young woman washing clothes. Date between 1685 and 1695
Flourishing Nihonbashi section of Tokyo. Japanese triptych print shows various modes of transportation on street in Tokyo, Japan. Date 1861
Changing times bring unseen things - true picture of a tiger. Japanese print shows a leopard with a dead rooster, turning to look at another rooster sitting on a rail behind it
Black ship off Shinagawa. Japanese print showing war ship with three masts and multiple cannons bearing English(?) flags and emitting a large plume of smoke. Date 1870
Portraits of foreigners - English, French. Japanese print shows an Englishman and a French woman horseback riding. Date 1861
People of the United States of North America - portrait of commanding officer. Japanese print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of an American naval commander; includes untranslated text of
Steam train at Takanawa seashore, Tokyo. Japanese triptych print shows steam railroad along the seashore, Tokyo, Japan. Date ca. 1872
Mukojima miyamoto musashi Muk?jima miyamoto musashiMukojima miyamoto musashi. Print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of the actor Miyamoto Musashi. Date 1852
People from foreign lands - English. Japanese print shows an English soldier and a woman walking with an umbrella. Date 1860
A modern version of the Tale of Genji in snow scenes. Ukiyo-e triptych print showing a snowy landscape with a woman brandishing a broom and a man holding an umbrella. Date 1853
Five nations - merrymaking at the Gankiro tea house. Japanese triptych print shows visitors from several nations enjoying a party in the Fan Room of the Gankiro. Date 1860
A samurai drinking sake. Preliminary drawing for a woodblock design showing a wounded warrior drinking from a bowl. Date between 1870 and 1890
America. Japanese triptych print shows view in America of a crowd gathering to watch a balloon ascension. Date 1865
The actor Ichikawa Monnosuke. Full-length depiction of actor Ichikawa Monnosuke with sword in the Thunder God pose. Date between 1772 and 1781
Picture of flourishing America
Woman reading while a young man looks over her shoulder. Seated woman reading a scroll as a young man emerges from behind a screen to read over her shoulder. Date between 1773 and 1775
English polo game
An evening view of Fuji
John Heathcoat, inventor of the knitting machine. Japanese print showing Heathcoat displaying the first successful result from his knitting machine to his wife. Date between 1850 and 1900
Dutch. Japanese print shows a Dutch domestic scene, a woman holds a child while one man operates a cheese press and another attends to food on a long oven. Date 1861
Interior of an American steamship. Japanese triptych print shows a cutaway view of an American steamship with group of passengers seated around a table below deck at mealtime
Foreigners ship: steamship. Japanese print showing a Japanese man and boy standing on the shore of a harbor in which is docked an American steamship, possibly Commodore Perrys ship. Date 1861
Heaven forsakes no honest man. Japanese print shows a woman seated at a table offering a morsel of food to a young woman; both wear western style clothing. Date between 1850 and 1900
Yokohama jetty. Japanese print shows three-masted ship in Yokohama harbor with Mount Fuji in the background. Date between 1850 and 1900
Portraits of Horibe Yatsubei and Horibe Yajibei. A scene from the drama The Storehouse of the Loyalties. The two figures in the image are the actors Horibe Yatsubei (Yasubei) and Horibe Yajibe
British house in Takanawa
