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Yokohama Woodcuts Exhibit Illuminates Early Western Contact
A New York Times Service column notes a Yokohama woodcuts show alongside Gericault at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The early 1860s prints document first Western visitors to Japan, depicting Westerners, a balloon remark, and rickshaws as Japan rapidly modernized while misrepresentations and curiosity shaped the imagery.
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New York
Theodore Alf Gericault
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Yokohama
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Pearl Harbor
Commodore Perry
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