Dainihon Bussan ZueIllustrations of Japanese Crafts and Occupations of the Meiji era

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Kinkai KikanPictorial scroll depicting the delegation led

by Commodore Perry, commander of the United States Navy East Indies Squadron, who came to Japan in 1853 and again in 1854.

MARUZEN-YUSHODO FACSIMILE EDITION JAPANESE HISTORY AND CULTURE IN FACSIMILE

Top:Coal mine development in Ise, Mie

Middle:Camellia oil manufacturing in Izu, Shizuoka

Bottom:Octopus fishing industry at Namekawa, Toyama

Dainihon Bussan ZueORIGINAL SCROLLS: ■ 118 woodblock prints done by

Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842-1894)

■ Currently possessed by the Kenshoku “Shoku” Library

FACSIMILE EDITION: ■ Folding book with 118 prints in

full color

■ 2 volumes (335 x 256mm)

■ Commentary by Setsuya Hashizume (Director, the Museum of Osaka University), Lemma readably reproduced by Megumi Soda

■ With supplement Dainihon bussan sugoroku (Board game)

■ JPY160,000

Kinkai KikanORIGINAL SCROLLS: Edited by Bankei Otsuki

■ Illustrated by Seishi Kuwagata, et al.,

■ Currently possessed by the Waseda University Library in Tokyo

FACSIMILE EDITION: ■ 2 scrolls (vol. 1: 30 x 947cm,

vol. 2: 30 x 1017cm),

■ Commentary by Tetsunori Iwashita (text in Japanese)

■ JPY280,000

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Dainihon Bussan Zue■ Consists of 118 colored woodblock prints

done by Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842-1894), which first appeared at the First National Industrial Fair of 1877.

■ Shows famous Japanese products of the Meiji era (1868 to 1912), projecting how active Japanese industry was growing even in the local regions at that time.

■ Indispensable to understanding social customs during Japan’s bunmei-kaika (civilization and enlightenment) period, how industry was structured at the time, and economic history in the regions.

■ Folds out to display several illustrations at once.

Top left:Sericultural industry in Iwaki, Fukushima

Top right:Icefish fishing industry in Bizen, Okayama

Bottom left:Burdock root harvesting in Iyo, Ehime

Bottom right:Ceramic manufacturing in Imari, Saga

FACSIMILE EDITION

From the Kenshoku “Shoku” Library collection

Kinkai Kikan黒船来航絵巻

FACSIMILE EDITION

TELEGRAPHEmbossing Morse telegraph, a gift from US president Fillmore. The machine in question

was accorded Important Cultural Property status by the Japanese government in 1997, and

is kept at the Postal Museum Japan (Tokyo).

Under orders from his master, Confucian scholar Bankei Otsuki of the Sendai domain compiled the scroll using information obtained from

scholars who had actually seen Perry and his entourage. Portraits of Perry and associates, steamships, steam locomotives, Colt pistols, telegraph and so on are rendered meticulously in watercolor, while the Ken no maki (Volume of heaven, vol. 1) chapter includes a poem gifted by Bankei to Luo Sen, the Chinese national who served as Perry’s interpreter.

LOCOMOTIVEThe locomotive ridden by Hachinosuke Kawada (who helped to draft the Treaty of Kanagawa,

and painted the title characters for the Kinkai kikan. Destroyed by fire in 1864.

From the Waseda University Library collection (Former Otsuki family collection)